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See also:PROKOPOVICH, THEOFAN (1681-1736) , See also:Russian See also:archbishop and statesman, one of the ablest coadjutors of See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter the See also:Great, was sprung from a See also:merchant See also:family. He brilliantly distinguishedhimself at the Orthodox See also:academy of See also:Kiev, subsequently completing his See also:education in See also:Poland (for which purpose he turned Uniate), and at See also:Rome in the See also:College of the Propaganda. Primed with all the knowledge of the See also:West, he returned See also:home to seek his See also:fortune, and, as the Orthodox See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk, became one of the professors at, and subsequently See also:rector of, the academy of Kiev. He entirely reformed the teaching of See also:theology there, substituting the See also:historical method of the See also:German theologians for the antiquated Orthodox scholastic See also:system. In 1709 Peter the Great, while passing through Kiev, was struck by the eloquence of Prokopovich in a See also:sermon on " the most glorious victory," i.e. See also:Poltava, and in 1716 summoned him to See also:Petersburg. From henceforth it was Theofan's See also:duty and See also:pleasure to explain the new ideas and justify the most alarming innovations from the See also:pulpit. So invaluable, indeed, did he become to the See also:civil See also:power, that, despite the determined opposition of the Russian See also:clergy, who regarded " the See also:Light of Kiev " as an interloper and semi-heretic, he was rapidly promoted, becoming, in 1718, See also:bishop of See also:Pskov, and finally, in 1724, archbishop of See also:Novgorod. As the author of " the spiritual regulation " for the reform of the Russian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, Theofan must, indeed, be regarded as the creator of " the spiritual See also:department " superseding the patriarchate, and better known by its later name of " the See also:holy See also:synod," of which he was made the See also:vice-See also:president. Penetrated by the conviction that See also:ignorance was the worst of the inveterate evils of old See also:Russia, a pitiless enemy of superstition of every sort; a reformer by nature, overflowing with See also:energy and resource, and with a singularly lucid mind armed at all points by a far-reaching erudition, Prokopovich was the soul of the reforming party after the See also:death of Peter the Great. To him also belongs the great merit of liberating Russian See also:preaching from the fetters of See also:Polish turgidity and affectation by introducing popular themes and a See also:simple See also:style into Orthodox pulpit eloquence.
See I. Chistovitch, Theofan Prokopovich and his Times (Rus.; Petersburg, 1868) ; P. Morozov, Theophan Prokopovich as a Writer (Rus.; Petersburg, 188o). (R. N.
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