Nifont (Russian: Нифонт) was Archbishop of Novgorod from 1130 to 1156, the first prelate of Novgorod the Great to hold that title, though it appears the...
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Kirik the Novgorodian (category People from medieval Novgorod)
– after 1158) was a monk of the Antoniev Monastery and later a hieromonk in the entourage of Archbishop Niphont of Novgorod (r. 1130–1156) famous for...
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dignity a few months later. Niphont held the title as a personal honor. Ilya carried out a number of construction projects in Novgorod along with his brother...
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made hegumen only in 1131–1132, immediately after Niphont was installed as the bishop of Novgorod. This long delay is unclear; presumably it was related...
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Confessor, Abbot of Medikion". www.oca.org. Retrieved 2024-09-21. "Venerable Nikḗtas of the Kiev Caves, Far Caves, Bishop of Novgorod". www.oca.org. Retrieved...
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Makaryev Sobors (category History of the Russian Orthodox Church)
meetings of the Russian Orthodox Church, convened in 1547 and 1549 by Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow, for the purpose of canonization of Russian saints...
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of Seminara (Filarete of Calabria), Calabria (ca. 1070) Saint Niphont, Bishop of Novgorod (1156) Venerable Rufus the Recluse (Rufus the Obedient), of...
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Kliment Smoliatich (category Metropolitans of Kiev and all Rus' (claimed or partially recognised))
and the bishop of Novgorod the Great, Niphont. After Iziaslav's death he was forced to abdicate as metropolitan and became bishop of Volodymyr-Volynskyi...
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Constantinople with the approval of Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos. The first Metropolitan of Halych was Niphont (reigned 1303–1305). Following his...
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Nikon the Shriveled, Monk (12th century), December 11 Niphon / Niphont, Bishop of Novgorod (1156), April 8 Onesimus the Hermit, Monk (12th-13th century)...
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church-wide canonization. Synaxis of All Saints of Vologda Synaxis of All Saints of Karelia Synaxis of All Saints of Novgorod Sabbatius Only Euthymius, under...
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