Andrew of Novgorod

Venerable Andrew of Novgorod, an abbot, was a disciple and successor of Venerable Anthony the Roman in the leadership of his monastery at Novgorod. He was installed abbot in 1147 and died in 1157. He is commemorated on 11 July, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Novgorod.

The Life of Venerable Anthony the Roman, in the surviving copies of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, is attributed to Andrew. In the Life of Anthony itself Andrew names himself several times: by his own words he, the hieromonk Andrew, received tonsure in Anthony's monastery, was his novice and disciple; when he was about to die, Anthony called him, made him his spiritual father and told him things from his life, leaving him the charge to write it after his death. From another reliable source it is known that Andrew was installed abbot in 1147 and died in 1157. At the end of the Life one reads that the commission to write it was repeated to Andrew by the bishop of the time, Nifont (died 1156).