Peter Artemiev

Artemiev, Peter (d. ca. 1700 ) - Deacon , one of the first Russian modern times , converted to Catholicism.

Son of an Orthodox priest , spent his childhood in Nizhny Novgorod , Vasilsursk and Suzdal. As in 1687 - one thousand six hundred eighty-eight studied at the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy in Moscow. In February 1688 as a "student and a novice" with Ioanniky Lihudom in Venice , where he was sent to the embassy. Presumably it is in Venice Artemyev adopted Catholicism. From Venice he went to Rome to "worship the holy places and to see heir Petrova , the father of fathers, ecumenical pope , and at the end of 1688 he returned to Moscow. Here Patriarch Adrian ordained him to the rank of deacon. While serving in the Peter and Paul Orthodox Church new middle-class suburb, Artemev went on to attend school Lihudov; became friendly with Moscow Jesuits Jiri David and T. Tihavskim. After their expulsion ( 5 October 1689 ), confessed and took communion at-a Jesuit missionary Fr.Terpilovsky Conrad, a former Moscow on his way from Persia .

Began to openly profess and preach the Catholic faith in 1698 , according to a denunciation of the priest of the same Peter and Paul Church Patriarch Adrian, "harbored many followed his heresy (in another source: charm). Summoned from Suzdal father could not reason with his son and persuaded him to renounce Catholicism, Peter was sent to the Novospassky monastery, where the Patriarch wrote a letter expressing willingness to accept martyrdom , denouncing the Patriarch and his teachers, the Greeks and stood up for the Old Believers . (Of course the message has not been preserved, but we know the answer to it, entitled "unmasking fallacies Deacon Peter").

13 June 1698 Council with the participation of Patriarch Adrian, and other senior hierarchs of the Russian Church, as well as the Greek monks was rasstrizhen , put anathematized and banished to a monastery Vazhsky ( Holmogorskya diocese ) with the command to keep it in strict isolation, not to ink and paper and do not indulge in church. After staying there since July 5 on 11 September 1689 , remained in his convictions, continued to accuse the Russian and Greek Schism and preach the reunion with Rome. As a result Kholmogorsky Bishop Athanasius imprisoned him in the Solovetsky monastery , where Peter Artemiev and died.

Links

Jozef Dremluga. The first Russian Catholics "Artemiev, Peter" in the Orthodox Encyclopaedia

References

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Franciscan Publishing, 2002.