Panteleimon Shilyaev

Panteleimon Shilyaev was a Russian hieroschemamonk, born in 1842 at Elabuga, Vyatka province, in a family of townspeople, who died in September 1902 as abbot of a hermitage in the Kazan diocese. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Andrei Matveevich in the world, he studied at Perm and in St Petersburg in the teachers' and scribes' classes. His brother Emelyan became a second-⁠guild merchant and a benefactor of St Panteleimon Monastery. In 1866, at twenty-⁠four, Andrei came to Athos and was gladly received at St Panteleimon; being an excellent calligrapher, he worked in the chancery. On 12 March 1869 he was tonsured into the mantle. Later he was sent to New Athos, where he lived from May 1888 to 1890, and on 20 April 1891 he was assigned to the Raifa Hermitage of the Mother of God in the Kazan diocese, where he soon became abbot. He reposed in September 1902.