Theologian Stefan Yavorsky

Chernihiv Television. The program "Chernihiv Region in the Lives of the Famous" from June 7, 2008 is dedicated to the theologian Stefan Yavorsky.

On the video: the city of Nizhyn; old prints; museum exposition; a story about the biography of Stefan Yavorsky.

Commentary: Head of the Rare Book Museum of Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University Oleksandr Morozov.

Author and presenter — Tetyana Myrhorodska.

Reference: Stefan Yavorsky is a theologian, philosopher and preacher of the Kyiv-Mohyla tradition, who, after studying at the Kyiv-Mohyla Collegium and studies in Jesuit centers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, taught poetics, rhetoric, philosophy and theology in Kyiv. In 1701–1721, he headed the Russian Orthodox Church as the locum tenens of the patriarchal throne, and after the creation of the Holy Synod, he became its first president, while at the same time supporting the autonomy of church authority and criticizing certain aspects of the church reform of Peter I. His legacy includes more than 300 sermons, the polemical treatise "The Stone of Faith" and a philosophical course of Baroque scholasticism with the development of logic, theory of knowledge and natural philosophical problems within the framework of the Kyiv-Mohyla intellectual culture.