241:, answerable to the regional patriarch rather than the local metropolitan, Novgorod's was merely a titular archbishopric and always remained subordinate to the Province of Kiev and later Moscow. Indeed, in letters from the Patriarch of Constantinople, it was always referred to as a bishopric, and there are a number of letters reminding sometimes recalcitrant archbishops of their subservience to the Russian metropolitan. Around 1400, the archbishops began referring to themselves as "Archbishop of Novgorod the Great and Pskov." In 1156, Bishop Arkadii (1156–1165) was elected by the
171:. The medieval archbishops of Novgorod were among the most important figures in medieval Russian history and culture and their successors (as bishops, archbishops, or metropolitans) have continued to play significant roles in Russian history up to the present day. They patronized a significant number of churches in and around the city, (several of which can still be seen today), and their artistic and architectural embellishments influenced later Russian art and architecture; they also patronized chronicle-writing, a crucial source on medieval Russian history.
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245:(public assembly) because the metropolitan throne in Kiev was vacant at that time. Over the next several centuries, a process of local election either by the veche, by the local clergy, or by the drawing of lots developed. It was last used in the election of Archbishop Sergei in 1483, the first Muscovite archbishop of Novgorod. This local election gave the archbishops considerable autonomy in church matters, although they were consecrated by the local metropolitan and maintained ties to the Russian church throughout this period.
480:, who held the title of Archbishop of Khutyn. Alexius was briefly Metropolitan of Novgorod in 1933, and was succeeded by Venedikt, who was shot in 1937 either in Kazan or in Leningrad, although the sources conflict. After Venedict, Alexius was made Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod in 1943. He was one of the three bishops (of four still alive) who met with Stalin on September 4, 1943, a meeting which led to the re-legaliziation of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1945, Alexius was elected
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277:(also known as Oreshek) that was rebuilt in stone by Vasilii Kalika in 1352, the city walls built around Novgorod in the 1330s, and so forth. They administered the ecclesiastical courts, which in Novgorod adjudicated cases that elsewhere in the Orthodox world were left to secular courts; they signed treaties on behalf of the city; they oversaw standards of weights and measures in the city marketplace; their vicars may have administered outlying districts, such as
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253:(embroidered communion cloth) from the St. Nicholas Cathedral on the Market bears an inscription referring to Nifont as archbishop. After the creation of the archiepiscopate, Martirii appears to have been the only one (before the creation of the metropolitanate in 1589) not to have been an archbishop, as none of his seals found in archaeological excavations speak of him as anything other than "bishop."
464:) that was sponsored by the Soviet authorities to split and thus weaken the Russian Church. The last of these, Veniamin Molchanov, was later Archbishop of Alma Ata, but nothing further is known of him after October 1936. He is thought to have been shot. The Renovationists fought with the patriarchal or main Orthodox Church before they were suppressed when the patriarchal church was legalized in 1943.
497:. He was transferred from Tashkent in 1990 to be bishop of Novgorod and raised to archiepiscopal dignity in 1995, and to the metropolitan dignity in 2012. He has overseen the reopening of a number of churches in Novgorod and the eparchy, the return of the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom to the Russian Orthodox Church, the opening of a seminary at the
490:, the most recent Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus was Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod immediately before his election as Patriarch in 1990. As patriarch, Alexius II presided over the reestablishment of Novgorod as an eparchy independent of Leningrad/St. Petersburg and of the reconsecration of the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom.
269:(1330–1352). It then continued to grow in power into the early fifteenth century. During this time, the archbishops carried out a number of important political functions: they headed embassies to bring peace and ransom captives, they patronized civil (as opposed to ecclesiastical) construction projects such as
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Novgorodian Eparchy was combined again with Leningrad after the re-legalization of the church in 1943. It was briefly separated in the 1950s and combined with Leningrad, again, in the 1960s. It was last separated in 1990, when it was recreated as a bishopric. It was raised to archiepiscopal level
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was elected. He, like many of the hierarchs of the church, suffered repeated arrest in the 1920s. He was exiled to
Central Asia in 1926 and made Bishop of Tashkent in 1933, where he died in 1936. A plaque on the old bishop's palace in Novgorod commemorates him and there is a festival in his honor in
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During the Time of
Troubles, Novgorod was occupied by the Swedes, and Novgorodian Metropolitan Isidor played a key role in negotiating the city's hand over to the Swedes in 1611 and in administering the city under Swedish occupation. The city was not returned to Russia until several years after the
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just north of the old city walls on the left bank of the
Volkhov River, the reestablishment of a library in the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom, and other activities in the aftermath of the Soviet persecution of the church. He has received several awards from the church and the Russian government for his
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Russian chronicles refer to all Novgorodian prelates as archbishops, the office was not formally raised to the archiepiscopal status until 1165. There is evidence, however, that suggests that Nifont (r. 1130-1156) held the archiepiscopal title personally even before that. An
324:(archbishop 1526-1542; Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus' 1542-1563), who built a number of churches in the city, patronized the writing of saints' lives, and began a number of important literary works in Novgorod, which he completed in Moscow. Most notably among these are the
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Archbishop Pimen from office and sent him to Aleksandrov where he was apparently tortured. Pimen died in 1572 under uncertain circumstances in the Monastery of St. Nicholas in Tula. His successor, Archbishop Leonid, was beheaded in Moscow on
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205:(also called St. Sofia's) "with thirteen tops" around the time of his arrival in Novgorod. That cathedral burned in 1045, and the current, stone, cathedral, the oldest building still in use in Russia today, was built between 1045 and 1050 by Prince
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Novgorod today. During his long, absentee tenure as
Archbishop and Metropolitan of Novgorod, the eparchy was administered by a number of vicars, including
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Catherine the Great's spiritual advisor for the first few years of her reign and crowned her Empress in 1762.
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in 1470–1478, the office fell somewhat into decline. The first three Muscovite archbishops were removed in disgrace, although the second one,
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establishment of the Romanov Dynasty, and Tsar Mikhail is said to have distrusted Isidor for his role in the city under Swedish control.
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in the Kremlin on the orders of the Tsar in October 1575. Leonid's successor, Aleksandr, was elevated to the
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Ph.D. Dissertation University of Miami 2003; Paul, "Secular Power and the Archbishops of Novgorod", 231-270.
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was removed from office after only three years and the see sat vacant for seventeen years (1509–1526).
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Tserkov' v sotsial'no-politicheskoi sisteme Novgorodskoi feodal'noi respubliki
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The office remained a bishopric until it 1165 when Metropolitan Kirill raised
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and later Finland and Estonia. It was separated from St. Petersburg in 1892.
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was one of the candidates for Patriarch in the 1917 Moscow Council, when
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The office of bishop of Novgorod was created around the time of the
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24, No. 3 (September 1965): 503-506; Paul, "Continuity and Change."
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in Russian) and compiled the first complete corpus of the
357:. Novgorod seems to have suffered more than most, as the
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Novgorod i Novgorodskaia Zemlia: Istoriia i Arkheologiia
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
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Diocese of Russian Orthodox Church in Veliky Novgorod
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Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture
645:26 (1979): 263-382; Paul, "Continuity and Change."
460:, or Renovationist Church, a movement (now deemed
309:in Slavonic (the Gennady Bible, now housed in the
690:Partial list of Archbishops of Novgorod the Great
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365:). At around the time of the massacre, Tsar
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201:(ca. 989-1030), built the first (wooden)
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467:In the patriarchal church, Archbishop
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340:The Book of Degrees of Royal Genealogy
167:) is one of the oldest offices in the
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2093:Patriarch's Parishes in Turkmenistan
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493:The current bishop is Metropolitan
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2329:Khmelnytskyi and Starokostiantyniv
544:St. Sofia's Cathedral in Novgorod.
320:The office revived somewhat under
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1885:Sydney, Australia and New Zealand
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2284:Dniprodzerzhynsk and Tsarychanka
2274:Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi
739:Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'
213:(1035–1060) on the Feast of the
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2479:Zhytomyr and Novohrad-Volynskyi
2464:Vinnytsia and Mohyliv-Podilskyi
2314:Kamianets-Podilskyi and Horodok
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482:Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus
209:. It was consecrated by Bishop
1895:Buenos Aires and South America
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448:Soviet and Post-Soviet Period
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2429:Severodonetsk and Starobilsk
2404:Oleksandriia and Svitlovodsk
2309:Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyia
2289:Dnipropetrovsk and Pavlohrad
1905:Eastern America and New York
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2394:Nova Kakhovka and Henichesk
2344:Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod
1673:Argentina and South America
548:Sofiiskii sobor v Novgorode
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2169:Spanish-Portuguese diocese
1940:Belarusian Orthodox Church
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1731:Sendai and Eastern Japan
1718:Orthodox Church in Japan
580:72 No. 2 (2003): 251-275
412:Peter and Paul Cathedral
229:in the fourth century).
203:Cathedral of Holy Wisdom
195:Christianization of Rus'
2384:Mykolaiv and Voznesensk
2279:Chernivtsi and Bukovina
2088:Tashkent and Uzbekistan
2083:Dushanbe and Tajikistan
1900:Chicago and Mid-America
1875:Russian Orthodox Church
1827:Latvian Orthodox Church
1746:Chinese Orthodox Church
1726:Kyoto and Western Japan
1666:dioceses outside Russia
730:Russian Orthodox Church
416:Peter and Paul Fortress
311:State Historical Museum
215:Exaltation of the Cross
169:Russian Orthodox Church
96:end of the 10th century
87:Russian Orthodox Church
2449:Ternopil and Kremenets
2434:Shepetivka and Slavuta
2379:Mukachevo and Uzhhorod
2359:Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol
2319:Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv
2304:Horlivka and Sloviansk
2259:Berdiansk and Prymorsk
2252:(de facto independent)
2159:Diocese of Chersonesus
2138:Patriarchal Exarchates
2078:Bishkek and Kyrgyzstan
2043:Kostanay and Petropavl
1840:Daugavpils and Rēzekne
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326:Velikie Mineia Chet'ii
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40:Saint Sophia Cathedral
2459:Uman and Zvenyhorodka
2439:Simferopol and Crimea
2299:Dzhankoy and Rozdolne
2224:Patriarchal Exarchate
2189:Patriarchal Exarchate
2146:Patriarchal Exarchate
2102:Patriarchial Parishes
2070:Metropolitan District
2025:Metropolitan District
1998:Polotsk and Hlybokaye
1983:Mogilev and Mstsislaw
1817:Ungheni and Nisporeni
1812:Tiraspol and Dubăsari
1703:Vilnius and Lithuania
1664:Directly subordinated
469:Arsenius (Stadnitsky)
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2364:Luhansk and Alchevsk
2354:Kremenchuk and Lubny
2334:Khust and Vynohradiv
2294:Donetsk and Mariupol
2199:Diocese of Singapore
2164:Diocese of The Hague
2048:Pavlodar and Oskemen
1968:Grodno and Vawkavysk
1759:Harbin and Manchuria
1688:Budapest and Hungary
656:Simeon Bekbulatovich
488:Patriarch Alexius II
439:Holy Governing Synod
363:Massacre of Novgorod
285:The Muscovite period
207:Vladimir Iaroslavich
165:Новгородская епархия
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2349:Konotop and Hlukhiv
2324:Kherson and Taurica
2209:Diocese of Thailand
2155:Diocese of Brussels
2058:Shymkent and Akmola
1988:Novogrudok and Lida
1948:Babruysk and Bykhaw
1920:Montreal and Canada
1693:Yerevan and Armenia
1678:Baku and Azerbaijan
559:Iaroslav Shchapov,
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394:The Imperial Period
330:Great Menion Reader
157:Diocese of Novgorod
105:Old Church Slavonic
23:Diocese of Novgorod
2424:Sarny and Polissia
2389:Nizhyn and Pryluky
2269:Cherkasy and Kaniv
2191:in South-East Asia
2174:Diocese of Sourozh
1993:Pinsk and Luninets
1973:Minsk and Zaslawye
1890:Berlin and Germany
1807:Edineț and Briceni
1698:Vienna and Austria
1683:Berlin and Germany
950:Ivanovo-Voznesensk
753:Dioceses in Russia
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420:Feofan Prokopovich
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313:). His successor,
303:Zhidovstvuyuschiye
291:Muscovite conquest
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199:Ioakim Korsunianin
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111:Current leadership
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2033:Astana and Almaty
2013:Vitebsk and Orsha
1963:Gomel and Zhlobin
1792:Bălți and Fălești
1650:Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
589:Michael C. Paul,
367:Ivan the Terrible
189:Novgorod Republic
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101:Language
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1953:Barysaŭ
1865:Tallinn
1769:Tianjin
1754:Beijing
1645:Yugorsk
1605:Yaransk
1600:Yakutsk
1570:Vologda
1530:Valuyki
1525:Uvarovo
1490:Troitsk
1480:Tobolsk
1465:Tikhvin
1405:Shakhty
1380:Sayansk
1375:Saratov
1370:Sarapul
1365:Saransk
1350:Salavat
1335:Rybinsk
1315:Rossosh
1270:Otradny
1225:Norilsk
1140:Magadan
1135:Lyskovo
1130:Lipetsk
1085:Kozelsk
1060:Klintsy
1025:Kasimov
1020:Karasuk
975:Izhevsk
970:Iskitim
960:Isilkul
955:Irkutsk
885:Buzuluk
880:Bryansk
825:Barnaul
800:Armavir
795:Ardatov
728:of the
414:in the
384:eparchy
322:Makarii
295:Gennady
275:Orekhov
161:Russian
136:Website
120:Eparchy
2124:Sweden
2119:Norway
2109:Canada
2003:Slutsk
1625:Yelets
1590:Vyborg
1580:Vyatka
1520:Urzhum
1455:Tambov
1425:Skopin
1360:Samara
1330:Ryazan
1320:Rostov
1160:Maykop
1110:Kurgan
1080:Kotlas
1010:Kanash
1000:Kaluga
980:Kainsk
945:Gubkin
930:Glazov
915:Elista
875:Bratsk
845:Belyov
830:Barysh
790:Anadyr
770:Alatyr
760:Abakan
473:Tikhon
223:Helena
126:Bishop
83:church
1736:Tokyo
1635:Yeysk
1595:Vyksa
1585:Vyzma
1485:Tomsk
1415:Shuya
1305:Pskov
1275:Penza
1265:Oryol
1185:Murom
1125:Livny
1120:Kyzyl
1115:Kursk
1040:Kinel
1030:Kazan
1015:Kansk
965:Ishim
910:Chita
850:Biysk
380:Pskov
328:(The
307:Bible
243:veche
2339:Kyiv
1835:Riga
1500:Tver
1495:Tula
1460:Tara
1340:Rzev
1280:Perm
1260:Orsk
1250:Omsk
785:Amur
744:List
234:Ilya
155:The
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