Feofan Prokopovich
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A posthumous portrait from the mid-18th century
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18 June 1681 Kiev |
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19 September 1736 (aged 55) St. Petersburg |
| Occupation | Archbishop |
Feofan/Theophan Prokopovich (18 June 1681, Kiev, Cossack Hetmanate, protectorate of Tsardom of Russia — 19 September 1736, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian-born Russian theologian, writer, poet, mathematician, philosopher, rector of the Kiev-Mogila Academy, Archbishop of Novgorod. He elaborated and implemented Peter the Great's reform of the Russian Orthodox Church. One of the founding fathers of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prokopovich wrote much religious verse and some of the most enduring sermons in the Russian language.
Eleazar Prokopovich was born in Kiev in the family of a shopkeeper Tsereysky from Smolensk. After the death of Eleazar's father and mother, his maternal uncle Feofan Prokopovich, the governor of the Kiev Brotherhood Epiphany Monastery, professor and rector of the Kiev-Mogila Academy became his guardian.
Eleazar's uncle sent him to the monastery for his primary school. After graduation, Eleazar became a student of the Kiev-Mogila Academy. After his uncle's death, Feofan Prokopovich, it supported the Kiev Metropolitan, rector of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Barlaam Jasinski.
In 1698, after graduating from the Kiev-Mogila Academy Eleazar decided to continue his education. In the same year he entered the Volodymyr-Volynskyi Uniate Collegium, he lived in the Basilian monastery, where the union takes and tonsured as a monk under the name of Elisha. Uniate Bishop of Volodymyr-Volynskyi Zalensky noticed the unusual abilities of the young monk, and contributed to his translation to the Catholic Academy of St. Athanasius in Rome, which was prepared by theologians to spread Catholicism among the Eastern Orthodox adherents.
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