The position of Archimandrite of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra still remained vacant. The Holy Synod, summoning Timofey Shcherbatsky to St. Petersburg, at the same time ordered the Lavra cathedral to present candidates for archimandry desired by the Lavra brethren. The Lavra brethren, apparently, thought a lot about the Kyiv-Pechersk archimandry, for the following persons were represented as candidates: “Reverend synodal member Platon (Malinovsky), Archbishop of Krutitsy, and Sylvester (Bulyabka) Bishop of Kostroma, and the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra from the cathedral hospital of the lagra monastery Viceroy, Hieromonk Uakinf Maksimovich: of the Novopechersk monasteries - -Svenskaya Vicar Luka, and Abbot of Zmiev Samuil Rubchanovsky*. The Holy Synod, presenting the report on the Lavra candidates to the Empress, considered it necessary to add his opinion, which does not entirely agree with the Lavra’s “One of the bishops is elected to the archimandry. What the Holy Father did was very contrary to the rules and order of the entire Eastern Orthodox Church. And although the other clergy mentioned above were only represented as candidates for the cathedral monastery, the Synod saw the most worthy one for the cathedral monastery, the typographer, Hieromonk Veniamin Falkovsky, and according to him, the Svensky Monastery. Viceroy Hierom. And since then there have always been such examples that candidates for this archimandrite were elected from other monasteries, for this reason and by the same example, the Synod, following the same example, elected the following candidates: the Kyiv diocese of the fraternal Epiphany monastery of the archimandrite and the Kyiv academy of the rector Sylvester Lyaskoronskaya, the Slutsk monastery of the archimandrite, already through considerable summer in Poland in defense of the piety of the worker, Joseph of Orange."
By decree of March 15, 1748, the Empress appointed the last candidate presented as Archimandrite of Kyiv-Pechersk, Joseph of Orange, who, by order of St. synod, and debt
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He should appear in St. Petersburg, probably for a further presentation to the Empress.
But even before the question of replacing the Kyiv-Pechersk archimandrite bases was finally resolved by the highest honor, the Lavra brethren, with a donation from the 5th Nart, considered it necessary to act before St. the synod did not like the election of bishops as candidates for the Kyiv Pechersk archimandry. “In recent years, Meletiy Khrepgovich, Bishop of Volodkmer and Beresgen, was elected archimandrite to the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and was appointed archimandrite of that Lavra; about which election and appointment there were written certificates, such as during the time of fire in the said Lavra burned down, after which, with the burning of the desire, now about exactly what year and in what manner the mentioned Khreptovich was elected archimandrite to this Lavra, I was determined to get a written certificate and have no where to come from, but he is Khreptovich, Bishop of Volodnmer and Berestensky from 1580 to 1591, archimandrite The Kyiv Lavra was indeed located, from the various fortresses available in the said Lavra, apparently there is. - Whom Archimandrite Timofey (Shcherbatsky) announced to the cathedral brethren, as he had heard, that according to the testimony of the bishops (i.e. Platon Malnovliy and Sylvester Kulyabka) they intend to leave their diocese due to the weakness of their health. ask to the Kiekshech Lavra for a promise. And the example was such that when the late Bishop of Chernihiv Herodion Zhurakovsky from the diocese made a promise to the Kyiv Mezhigorsk monastery. dismissed, while he was entrusted with the management of the monastery. And for those two reasons, the bishop’s candnati is “.
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Failed vicariate under Arseny Mogilyansky, Metropolitan.
The institution of the vicariate was not suddenly established in the Russian Church. In pre-Petrine Rus' there was something like vicariate in its simplest and most original form: namely, assistance
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