Anthony (in the world Alexander Vadkovsky)

(born in 1846), son of archpriest of Tambov. Upon its completion at the Kazan Theological Academy, he taught in her homiletics and pastoral theology, was an inspector of Kazan, then the St. Petersburg Theological Academy. In 1887 A. was appointed rector of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy with the construction of a bishop of Vyborg, vicar of the St. Petersburg diocese. In 1892 he was appointed archbishop of the newly formed Diocese of Finland, since 1898 - Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, in 1900 - pre-eminent member of the Holy Synod. In 1895, approved by the Holy Synod in the degree of Doctor of Church History. In 1893 A. was appointed chairman of the Commission on starokatolicheskomu issue, which had produced the answers starokatolikam on conditions compound the eastern and western churches. In 1897 A. was sent to a representative of the Russian church in England to celebrate the jubilee of Queen Victoria. Oxford and Cambridge universities honored him in the erection of a doctorate. In 1906, a. was chairman Highest established the Holy Synod of the special presence to the development issues to be addressed nationwide Cathedral. Description manuscripts Solovetsky libraries, which together with other professors involved in a. during their stay in Kazan Theological Academy, and a special lift in the public interest to the Slavs before the Russian-Turkish war, sent a class A. toward the study of Slavic preaching, . resulting in his study: "Constantine, . Bishop Bulgarian, . and didactic Gospel ", . and the publication of several teachings of Clement of Slovenian manuscripts Solovetsky library and part of rough Securities Undolskogo,
. All the help of an erudite literary articles A., . printed in the "Orthodox Interlocutor, . "Wanderer", . "Orthodox Review", . published a book entitled: "From the history of Christian preaching" (St. Petersburg, . 1892 and 1895), . and sermons and speeches, . spoken to them in different places and on different occasions, . were collected under the title: "Speeches, . words and teachings "(ed,
. 2-e, St. Petersburg., 1901). - See. S. Ternovskii, . "Historical note on the Kazan Theological Academy, after its transformation, . 1870 - 1892 "(Kazan, . 1892), "Decade of the Department of the St. Petersburg Metropolitan First Hierarch of the Russian Church" (St. Petersburg, . 1909); "Reverend A., . Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, "(" Church Herald ", . 1908, . N 51 - 52).,