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Father Ioann Yanyshev
Read more...Priest, confessor, teacher. Born in the family of a deacon called Leonty Yanyshev in the village of Sashkino in Kaluga Province (1826). Graduated from St Petersburg Theological Academy (1849). Priest...
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Patriarch Job of Moscow
Read more...Job was the first patriarch of the Russian church. Born circa 1525, he was originally called Ioann and brought up at the Monastery of the Dormition in the town of Staritsa. He took the habit between ...
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Metropolitan Michael
Read more...Clergyman, mason. Born Matvei in the family of a rural sexton called Mikhail Desnitsky in the village of Toporkovo in Moscow Province (1761). Graduated from the arts seminary of the Nikolai Novikov S...
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