Background
Petr Ivanovich Lebedinsky was born on July 21, 1754 in Poltava, Krasnodar, Russian Federation. He was from the family of a clergyman.
Petr Ivanovich Lebedinsky was born on July 21, 1754 in Poltava, Krasnodar, Russian Federation. He was from the family of a clergyman.
Petr Ivanovich Lebedinsky studied at the Pereyaslavl Theological Seminary, graduated from the Kharkov Theological Seminary, the Kiev Theological Academy, where he served as a teacher.
In 1785 Petr Ivanovich became a monk. Since 1787 he served in Astrakhan. The builder of the Ivanovo monastery, the prefect of the Theological Seminary.
Rector of the Transfiguration Monastery (1790-1794), rector of the Astrakhan Theological Seminary (1791-1794). Rector of the Kazan Theological Academy (1794-1799), at the same time rector of the Sviyazhsky Bogoroditsky monastery. Bishop of Pereyaslavsky (1799-1803), Poltava and Pereyaslavsky (1803-1807), Archbishop of Astrakhan and the Caucasus (1807-1808).
He was dismissed from his post due to illness, and was appointed to manage the Glukhovsky monastery in the city of Baturin, Kharkov province. He died on the way, was buried in the Nikolskaya church of the village of Rovenki (the grave was intact at the beginning of the 20th century).
