Parthenius Ageev

Parthenius Ageev was a Russian schemahegumen born in Iasi and author of a known book about his pilgrimages. He reposed on 17 May 1878. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Pyotr Savich Ageev in the world, he was born on 14 November 1806 at Iasi in Moldavia. An orphan early, he was adopted by good people who were Old Believers but God-⁠fearing, merciful and hospitable. He visited many monasteries in Russia and stopped at the Old Believer monastery of Bila Krynytsia in Bukovina, where he was tonsured with the name Paisius. Wishing to reach Athos, he stopped ill at an Old Believer skete in Moldavia, and there was freed from the burden of the schism. He travelled to Kiev and Nizhny Novgorod and was chrismated at Varatec in Moldavia. On 8 November 1839 he reached Athos, lived with the elder Arsenius, then with Hieronymus, and was tonsured into the mantle with the name Pamva, and in 1841 into the schema with the name Parthenius. After a year and a half, with the confessor's blessing, he went to Russia to gather donations for the monastery, returned in 1846 and was sent again. He was ordained priest in Moscow and published the Account of the Life and Labours of Elder Daniel of Siberia and other writings. In 1872 he was retired to the Gethsemane Skete of the Holy Trinity-⁠St Sergius Lavra, where he reposed on 17 May 1878. He also wrote the Lives of some Russian Athonite elders.