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STEPHEN YAVORSKY (c. 1658-1722)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 908 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STEPHEN See also:YAVORSKY (c. 1658-1722)  , See also:Russian See also:archbishop and statesman, one of the ablest coadjutors of See also:Peter the See also:Great, was educated at the See also:Kiev See also:Academy and various See also:Polish See also:schools . Becoming a See also:monk, he settled at the Kiev Academy as a preacher and See also:professor, being appointed See also:prefect of the institution and See also:prior of the monastery of St See also:Nicholas . He attracted the See also:attention of Peter by his funeral oration over the See also:boyar Shein, and was made archbishop of See also:Ryazan in 1700 . In 1702, on the See also:death of the last See also:patriarch of See also:Moscow, See also:Yavorsky was appointed custodian of the spiritualities of the patriarchal see . Not-withstanding frequent collisions with Peter, and his partiality for the unfortunate tsarevich Alexius, Yavorsky was too valuable a See also:man to be discarded . In 1721 he was made first See also:president of the newly erected See also:Holy See also:Synod, but died in the following See also:year . Yavorsky's See also:chief See also:works are his See also:Rock of the Faith of the Orthodox-See also:Catholic Eastern See also:Church and Dogmatic, Moral and Panegyrical Sermons . See Y . T . Samarin, See also:Stephen Yavorsky (Rus.) (Moscow, 1844) ; I . Morev, " The Rock of the Faith " of the See also:Metropolitan Stephen Yavorsky (Rus.) (See also:Petersburg, 1904) .

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