Glinsk Hermitage
Gate Church of the Iveron Icon of the Theotokos
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| Monastery information | |
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| Full name | Nativity of the Theotokos Stavropegial Male Monastery |
| Order | Basilian (Orthodox) |
| Established | 1648 |
| Dedicated to | Nativity of the Theotokos |
| Diocese | Konotop and Hlukhiv Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) |
| People | |
| Founder(s) | Monks from Molchensky Monastery (Putivl) |
| Abbot | Metropolitan Vladimir (Sabodan) of Kiev |
| Prior | Bishop Anthony (Kripak) of Putivl |
| Site | |
| Location | Sosnivka, Hlukhiv Raion, Sumy oblast, Ukraine |
The Glinsk Hermitage (formally known as the Nativity of the Theotokos Stavropegial Male Monastery) is a Russian Orthodox stavropegial monastery located in Ukraine, near the Russian border. In the 19th and early 20th centuries it was a major spiritual center of the Russian Orthodox Church, and many of its elders have been recently canonized as saints. The monastery is under the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in the diocese of Konotop and Hlukhiv.
According to tradition, the monastery was founded in the 17th century in a wooded thicket not far from the city of Putivl, in the village of Sosnovka. There, a miraculous icon of the Nativity of the Theotokos was discovered on a tall pine by beekeepers. The site became a shrine for pilgrimage, and monks from the Molchensky Monastery in Putivl settled there and founded the monastery in 1648. As the thicket was once used by potters as a source of clay ([glina] error: {{lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)), the monastery became informally known as the Glinsk Hermitage. The first official documentation of the existence of the monastery appeared in the late 17th century; decrees from Patriarch Joachim and Tsars Peter the Great and Ivan V confirmed the right of the monks from Putivl to live at the hermitage. The hermitage was alternatively a dependence of the Molchensky Monastery and the Metropolitan of Kiev before becoming independent in 1764.
Through most of the 18th century the hermitage prospered, and had many benefactors, including Peter the Great’s close advisor Alexander Menshikov. By 1764 the monastery had nearly 12,000 acres of land, which included 80 apiaries and extensive farmland and fishing grounds. However, a 1787 decree of Paul I dispossessed the monastery of nearly all its territory, leaving it with a tiny fraction of its wealth and a subsidy of 300 rubles a year.
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