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Ilya (Archbishop of Novgorod)

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Ilya appears in a number of medieval tales (some of them set centuries after his death) as the quintessential archbishop of Novgorod. (He is almost always referred to as Ioann in them). The most famous tale depicts him conquering a devil and forcing it to transform itself into a horse and fly him to
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Ilya carried out a number of construction projects in Novgorod along with his brother, Gavril (also known as Grigorii), who succeeded him as archbishop (1186–1193) and consecrated the
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in the west gallery, next to the Predtechenskaia Porch. He was originally buried below the floor in the Martirievskii Porch (where Gavril is still buried), but was later moved. His
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is said to have saved the city at that time. He is also featured prominently in the tale that surrounds the event and the chronicle accounts of the siege.
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on April 3, 1919. They are now in a different sarcophagus with a sarcophagial effigy (from the 1990s) covering it.
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The Church of Saint Blaise, Novgorod the Great; a reconstruction on the site of Ilya's parish church.
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and rebuilt again. Ilya was probably his first monastic name, and his baptismal name is not known.
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in Novgorod after the office was elevated to the archiepiscopal dignity a few months later.
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Nekropol Novgorodskogo Sofiiskogo sobora: tserkovnaia traditsiia i istoricheskaia kritika
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The son of a priest, Ilya was himself priest of the Church of St. Blaise, south of the
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Ilya is also depicted in the two fifteenth and sixteenth century Icons of the
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and back in a single night. In Jerusalem, he took the measurements of the
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Michael C. Paul, "Episcopal Election in Novgorod Russia 1156-1478"
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in the Pretechenskaia Porch of the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom.
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Ilya died on September 7, 1186, and was buried in the
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during the Suzdalian siege of the city in 1169. The
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effigy
Archbishop of Novgorod
Russian
Great Schema
Russian
Archbishop of Novgorod
Novgorod Kremlin
Second World War

bishop
Novgorod
Metropolitan
Kiev
archbishop
Niphont
Khutyn Monastery
Cathedral of Holy Wisdom
relics
Soviet anti-religious campaigns
Moscow Council of 1547
Julian calendar
Gregorian
Jerusalem
Holy Sepulchre
Battle of the Novgorodians with the Suzdalians
Russian Museum
Saint Petersburg
Church of the Transfiguration on Ilin Street
Cathedral of Holy Wisdom

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