121. 1495 г. в сентябре. Геннадия, архиепископа новгородского, повольная грамота на поставление в митрополиты игумена Троицкого Сергеева монастыря Симона

From the collection Imper. Publ. Library Q. XVII. No. 50 (Tolstoy's collections, part II, no. 341), l. 124. It was published, according to the same list, in the first volume of the Addendum to the Act. Histor. at number 19. To our most holy and God-loving brethren: Tikhon, Archbishop 3088 of Rostov and Yaroslavl, Nifont, Bishop of Suzdal and Toru, and Vasian, Bishop of Tver, and other bishops of the great Russian metropolis. That they sent us a letter, announcing to our humility that Father Zosima Metropolitan, for the sake of his infirmity, left the table of the Russian Metropolitan and, having come to the holy great cathedral church, placed his omophorion on the throne in front of everyone, and the Lord Bot, a witness to this, declared that it was impossible for him to act in this regard, neither to be called a metropolitan, and went to a monastery in monastic residence is humble: and you, with the favor and confession of our sovereign, Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich 3089 of all Rus', elected Siman, abbot of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity of the Sergius Monastery, to that degree, and elevated him to the metropolitan court; Yes, write to me that the great sovereign prince told you that I cannot be with you at the installation of the great metropolitan for the sake of necessary Christian deeds. And you, our brethren, the archbishop and bishops, would have accomplished that great divine work, you would have placed that natural Siman on that great table 3090, whom you naturally chose and named; and I am with you, with my brethren, with the archbishop and bishops of the Russian metropolis, in that divine work in one will and desire. And the mercy of the Lord God Almighty and His Most Pure Mother of God, and the holy wonderworkers, prayer, and blessing always be with your holiness and love of God, amen. – Signature of Bishop Gennady: By the grace of God, Archbishop of Veliky Novgorod and Pskov. In the manuscript to Vasian the bishop - erroneously. See in “Lists of Hierarchs” by Stroev, p. 332, No. 33. In the manuscript of Vasily Ivanovich. There is a callout on the field; degree. You might be interested in: