Hermogenes Buhus of Horaita

Ermoghen Buhuș, born in the early nineteenth century at Buhuși, in Bacău county, was an archimandrite and the second founder of Horaița Monastery, the first disciple of Irinarch Roseti. He fell asleep in 1872. He is named in the Romanian Paterikon and venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization; the sources available to us give no day of commemoration, and the Paterikon gives the year 1872 with a question mark.

He left his parents' house and entered the community of Neamț Monastery. In 1829, meeting the hermit Irinarch, he went to Horăicioara Skete and became his first disciple. Together they sought a place of hermit life and built the first church of Horaița. After 1830 the riassophore John was tonsured a monk by his elder, with the name Ermoghen.

In 1843, when Irinarch left for Jerusalem, Ermoghen was ordained priest, then made archimandrite and appointed abbot of Horaița in place of his father. He guided the monastery wisely for more than thirty years, keeping exactly the rules left by Irinarch and the spiritual unity of the community. In his time many monks of Horaița went to struggle on Athos, while others lived as hermits in the Neamț Mountains; some became skilled hermits, because the abbot helped all and strengthened them in the love of Christ.

Between 1865 and 1867 he raised in Horaița a large masonry church, still seen today, in place of the first one, which had grown too small, dedicated to the Holy Trinity. In 1872 he passed to eternal rest, leaving a well-⁠ordered monastic community.