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Calendar) would be the end of the world (this corresponds to the year 1492 AD) and thus they did not calculate Easter after that. This would have had dire consequences, not only for the performance of religious rituals, but also in determining when to plant and harvest crops, and could potentially have led to famine. Gennady's contribution thus went beyond merely knowing when Easter was.
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Gennady was named Archbishop of Novgorod in Moscow and placed in office on 12 December 1484, the first Novgorodian prelate not chosen by lots since 1359. He arrived in Novgorod in January 1485 with the task (as had been Sergei's) of bringing the newly conquered Novgorodian church (the city had been
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control only in 1478 and the last locally elected archbishop, Feofil, had been removed only in 1480) more in line with Muscovite ecclesiastical practices. He faced opposition from the local clergy by his commemoration of several Muscovite saints, but dealt with this opposition by including several
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notes that Gennady also helped pay for one third of the reconstruction of the current Detinets or Kremlin walls between 1484 and 1490, and in 1492, he calculated Easter for the next thousand years. Many Russians believed the year 7000 from the creation of the world (according to the Byzantine
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Gennady's main difficulty during his archiepiscopate, however, was rooting out the Judaizer heresy from Novgorod and also Moscow, where it had spread when several Novgorodian clergymen were transferred to the capital. He is said to have borrowed methods from the
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in the main church of the monastery until its destruction in 1929, after which his remains were lost, as were those of more than a hundred other people buried in the Kremlin.
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and retired from office. After returning to Moscow, he died on 4 December 1505 in the Chudov Monastery. He was buried near
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16(3/4) December 1992: 269-288; George Vernadsky, "The Heresy of the Judaizers and the Policies of Ivan III of Moscow,"
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31, no. 4 (1998): 17–32; Andrei Pliguzov, "Archbishop Gennadii and the Heresy of the 'Judaizers'"
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and is famous for compiling the first complete codex of the Bible in Slavic in 1499, known as the
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David M Goldfrank, "Burn, Baby, Burn: Popular Culture and Heresy in Late Medieval Russia,"
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Michael C. Paul, “Episcopal Election in Novgorod, Russia 1156-1478,”
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Michael C. Paul, “The Military Revolution in Russia, 1550-1682,”
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Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture
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Index

Saint

Venerable
Moscow
Chudov Monastery
Eastern Orthodox Church
Canonized
Russian Orthodox Church
Feast
Attributes
Gennady's Bible
Russian
Archbishop of Novgorod the Great and Pskov
Heresy of the Judaizers
Gennady Bible
Russian Orthodox Church
OS
Gregorian Calendar

boyar
Moscow
hegumen
Chudov Monastery
Moscow Kremlin
Muscovite
Spanish Inquisition
Novgorodian Fourth Chronicle

Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible
Moscow Council of 1503

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