Ambrose (in the world Andrew Podobedov)

1742 - 1818. Educated at Trinity Seminary, was a prefect, and then rector of the Moscow Theological Academy. The best known enjoyed his sermon, told on the occasion of the murder, during the plague, Moscow Archbishop Ambrose, it was translated into French and German languages. He had compiled "Guide to reading the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament" (1779), reprinted in 1811 under the title: "A brief guide to reading the books of the Old and New Testament". He was successively vicar of the Moscow Metropolitan, the Bishop Krutitskii, Archbishop of Kazan, St. Petersburg, Vyborg and Estland, since 1801 - the Metropolitan of Novgorod and St. Petersburg. In 1805 opened a school at his own expense Novgorod bishop's house, the former about 70 years in ruins. With the active participation of A. committed spiritual transformation of educational institutions with the establishment of a commission Religious Schools. "Collection instructive words" A. came 3 rd edition in Moscow in 1825. - Wed. "Wanderer", 1860, N 5 and 6.