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182:. 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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256:(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.
491:, 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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288:(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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264:(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."
475:) 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.
508:. 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
501:, 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.
280:(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
335:(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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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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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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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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in Russian) and compiled the first complete corpus of 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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Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture
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701:Partial list of Archbishops of Novgorod the Great
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351:The Book of Degrees of Royal Genealogy
178:) is one of the oldest offices in the
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504:The current bishop is Metropolitan
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555:St. Sofia's Cathedral in Novgorod.
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1896:Sydney, Australia and New Zealand
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2295:Dniprodzerzhynsk and Tsarychanka
2285:Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi
750:Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'
224:(1035–1060) on the Feast of the
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2475:Vinnytsia and Mohyliv-Podilskyi
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2440:Severodonetsk and Starobilsk
2415:Oleksandriia and Svitlovodsk
2320:Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyia
2300:Dnipropetrovsk and Pavlohrad
1916:Eastern America and New York
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2355:Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod
1684:Argentina and South America
559:Sofiiskii sobor v Novgorode
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1951:Belarusian Orthodox Church
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1729:Orthodox Church in Japan
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423:Peter and Paul Cathedral
240:in the fourth century).
214:Cathedral of Holy Wisdom
206:Christianization of Rus'
2395:Mykolaiv and Voznesensk
2290:Chernivtsi and Bukovina
2099:Tashkent and Uzbekistan
2094:Dushanbe and Tajikistan
1911:Chicago and Mid-America
1886:Russian Orthodox Church
1838:Latvian Orthodox Church
1757:Chinese Orthodox Church
1737:Kyoto and Western Japan
1677:dioceses outside Russia
741:Russian Orthodox Church
427:Peter and Paul Fortress
322:State Historical Museum
226:Exaltation of the Cross
180:Russian Orthodox Church
107:end of the 10th century
98:Russian Orthodox Church
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2445:Shepetivka and Slavuta
2390:Mukachevo and Uzhhorod
2370:Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol
2330:Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv
2315:Horlivka and Sloviansk
2270:Berdiansk and Prymorsk
2263:(de facto independent)
2170:Diocese of Chersonesus
2149:Patriarchal Exarchates
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2054:Kostanay and Petropavl
1851:Daugavpils and Rēzekne
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18:Archbishop of Novgorod
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2310:Dzhankoy and Rozdolne
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2200:Patriarchal Exarchate
2157:Patriarchal Exarchate
2113:Patriarchial Parishes
2081:Metropolitan District
2036:Metropolitan District
2009:Polotsk and Hlybokaye
1994:Mogilev and Mstsislaw
1828:Ungheni and Nisporeni
1823:Tiraspol and Dubăsari
1714:Vilnius and Lithuania
1675:Directly subordinated
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2305:Donetsk and Mariupol
2210:Diocese of Singapore
2175:Diocese of The Hague
2059:Pavlodar and Oskemen
1979:Grodno and Vawkavysk
1770:Harbin and Manchuria
1699:Budapest and Hungary
667:Simeon Bekbulatovich
499:Patriarch Alexius II
450:Holy Governing Synod
374:Massacre of Novgorod
296:The Muscovite period
218:Vladimir Iaroslavich
176:Новгородская епархия
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2335:Kherson and Taurica
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1999:Novogrudok and Lida
1959:Babruysk and Bykhaw
1931:Montreal and Canada
1704:Yerevan and Armenia
1689:Baku and Azerbaijan
570:Iaroslav Shchapov,
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405:The Imperial Period
341:Great Menion Reader
168:Diocese of Novgorod
116:Old Church Slavonic
34:Diocese of Novgorod
2435:Sarny and Polissia
2400:Nizhyn and Pryluky
2280:Cherkasy and Kaniv
2202:in South-East Asia
2185:Diocese of Sourozh
2004:Pinsk and Luninets
1984:Minsk and Zaslawye
1901:Berlin and Germany
1818:Edineț and Briceni
1709:Vienna and Austria
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