Portrait of Bishop Macarius
1853
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The St Michael’s Castle
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Room 204 - Period Late 19th century
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Archbishop Mikhail (Mathew Desnitsky; 1761–1821) was a spiritual leader, a famous homilist, and a Mason. He graduated from Philological Seminary affiliated with the Friendly Society of Nikolai Novikov. In 1785, he was named the priest of the St John the Warrior Church in Moscow. From December 1796, he was a court priest at Gatchina and a catechist of the 1st Cadet Corps. In 1799, he was made an archimandrite of the Yuriev monastery outside of Novgorod. In 1802, he was named vicar of Novgorod. In 1803, he was made a bishop, and in 1806, the archbishop of Chernigov and Nezhin. In 1813, he was made an attendant member of the Synod. He became a metropolitan of St Petersburg on 26 March 1818, and of Novgorod on 25 July 1818. He is depicted in a black hood and black robe, with an icon of the Virgin Mary on his neck and the Orders of St Anne of the 1st class (ribbon and cross on the neck) and St John of Jerusalem (Maltese cross on the neck, embroidered cross on the robe).