one of the most famous pulpit orators of Russia, was born in 1761, in the neighborhood of Kiev. He studied at the theological school in Perejaslav, became in 1790 a monk, was appointed in 1797 bishop of White Russia, in 1801 archbishop, and in 1805 member of the Holy Synod. He died in 1816, archbishop of Astrachan. He published a collection of religious discourses, in four vols. (St. Petersburg, 1796; Moscow, 1799-1807): — Tractatus de Concionum Dispositionibus Formandis (Moscow, 1806). (B.P.)