Ilarion Levitskii

Ilarion Levitskii was a Russian schemaarchimandrite, born in Moscow, confessor of the Russian Skete of St Andrew on Athos, who died on 30 April 1891, about sixty years old. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Iosif Stepanovich in the world, the son of rich parents, Stepan and Ekaterina, he received a fitting education. After his wife's death, his father became a monk, and the son followed him, becoming synodal sacristan and abbot of the Vysoko-⁠Petrovsky monastery in Moscow. In 1884 he came to Athos and entered the Skete of St Andrew. The abbot Feodorit, valuing his spiritual qualities, named him confessor of the skete. Father Denasios (Yushkov) recounts a meeting with him: he had spiritual depth together with unfeigned simplicity. He reposed on 30 April 1891.