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Hermogenes of Moscow | |
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Born | Yermolay c. 1530 Kazan, Russia |
Died | 17 February 1612 Chudov Monastery, Moscow |
Venerated in | Orthodox Church |
Canonized | May 12 1912, Moscow by Russian Orthodox Church |
Feast | May 12 (25) |
Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow | |
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Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus' | |
Church | Russian Orthodox Church |
See | Moscow |
Installed | 1606 |
Term ended | 1612 |
Predecessor | Ignatius |
Successor | Filaret |
Personal details | |
Buried | Dormition Cathedral, Moscow |
Hermogenes, or Germogen (Russian: Гермоге́н) (secular name Yermolay) (before 1530 – 17 February 1612) was the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia from 1606. It was he who inspired the popular uprising that put an end to the Time of Troubles. Hermogenes was glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1913.
At the Holy Synod of 1589, which established the patriarchy in Moscow, Hermogenes was appointed Metropolitan of the newly conquered city of Kazan. During the following two decades, he gained renown for a number of Muslim Volga Tatars converted to Eastern Orthodoxy.
In 1606, Hermogenes was summoned by False Dmitry I to take part in the Senate recently instituted in Moscow. There he learnt about the tsar's design to marry a Roman Catholic woman, Marina Mniszech, and firmly declared against such an alliance. At that he was exiled from the capital, only to return with great honours several months later, when the false tsar had been deposed, and Patriarch Ignatius followed suit.