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Hierarch · 19th century

Theophan the Recluse Bishop of Tambov

Also known as Theophan the Recluse · Feofan Zatvornik

A bishop who withdrew into reclusion to write and translate, becoming one of the great teachers of prayer and the spiritual life; he rendered the Philokalia into Russian.

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Notes

Glorified by the Russian Church in 1988.

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Jan 10