Damaskin

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Who is Damaskin?

Bishop Damaskin — was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, appointed the Orthodox Church Bishop of Nizhny Novgorod province, the diocese of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas. A prominent specialist in the study of early texts, bibliographer and scholar.

Born to a family of a Russian orthodox priest in January 1737 in Tula province, the Russian Empire. In 1750 Damaskin joined the Kolomna seminary and then in 1752 the Moscow clerical academy. Upon graduation in 1761 he was appointed a tutor into the Kolomna seminary. In 1765 he submitted a petition to continue education in England.

In 1766, he was among four students of the Moscow clerical academy Damaskin and was sent to study at the University of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany till 1772 when he returned to Russia.

In December 1774, he was appointed to the position of the tutor in the Slavic Greek Latin Academy in Moscow. Since 1775 Damaskin is the prefect and professor of philosophy at the academy. On 8 September of 1775 he took of monastic vows.

In April 1778, he was promoted to be the archimandrite of the Epiphany Monastery in Moscow and on 24 May 1778 was appointed rector of the Slavic Greek Latin Academy. Is renowned for introducing significant improvements in the way of tutoring, deliberation of the study process from scholasticism, widening of the library and introduction of solemn assembly and public debate at the academy.

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on July 23, 2013

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