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“The most influential pro-Lutheran clergyman was Feofan (Theophanes) Prokopovich, another young professor from the Kiev Academy. Peter first met Prokopovich in 1709… Seven years later, Peter brought Prokopovich to his new capital, St. Petersburg, for a series of sermons. This indicated that Prokopovich would soon be made a bishop, causing an uproar at the Moscow Academy, which four years earlier had already protested to Peter that Feofan’s theology was Lutheran and incompatible with Orthodoxy. This time, the Kieven professors at the Moscow Academy, archimandrites Feofilakt Lopatinskii and Gedeon Vishnevskii, together with Metropolitan Yavorskii, submitted a written protest to Peter, which delayed the consecration of Prokopovich for two years. In 1718, he was consecrated bishop of Pskov, and therefore also of St. Petersburg… Seventy-five percent of Prokopovich’s library of 3,000 volumes consisted of Lutheran works; and all his publications, about seventy altogether, mostly polemical tracts, were based on Lutheran authors” The Orthodox Church in the History of Russia, Dimitry Pospielovsky, p.109

“There are two places on the earth which rightly bear the name of Holy. The grace of the Three-Sun Divinity, which sanctifies the whole of the animate and inanimate creation, has sanctified also these two spots on our planet, the Holy Land and the Holy Mountain. The Holy Land was hallowed by the earthly presence of the Son and Logos, the Theanthropos, the Word of God; and the Holy Mountain by the living visitation and protection of our immaculate Panagia, our Blessed Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, and by the multitude of Athonite fathers shining in asceticism and holiness.” Contemporary Ascetics of Mount Athos (Volume 2) - Elder Gerasim Menagias - Written by: Archimandrite Cherubim Karembela