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Christian feast day: John of Tobolsk (Russian Orthodox Church)
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John of Tobolsk
Russian ascetic and metropolitan (1651–1715)
John of Tobolsk, born Ioann Maksimovich Vasilkovskiy was a teacher, writer and clergyman of Ukrainian Cossack origin, who served as the Russian Orthodox archbishop of Chernigov and Novgorod-Seversk, and later as the metropolitan of Tobolsk and all Siberia.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Russian Orthodox Church
Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church
The Russian Orthodox Church, also officially known as the Moscow Patriarchate, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church. It has 194 dioceses inside Russia. The primate of the ROC is the patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)