Simeon of Vladimir

Saint Simeon was bishop of Vladimir, Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod from 1295 to 1299, then bishop of Rostov and Yaroslavl from 1299 to 1311, and he died in 1314 at Suzdal. He is commemorated on 23 May, the day of the Synaxis of the saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl. The record does not say in what year or by what act he was numbered among the saints, so we regard him as venerated chiefly in these dioceses.

He was consecrated bishop to the see of Vladimir in 1295 (according to other sources in 1297) by Metropolitan Maximus of Kiev and All Rus. In 1296, at the assembly of princes held in the city of Vladimir, together with Ismail, bishop of Sarai, he reconciled the princes and brought them to concord. The discord had been so great, says the Fourth Novgorod Chronicle, that God spared them narrowly from bloodshed, and each went home.

On 18 April 1299 Metropolitan Maximus, unable to bear the Tatar violence, left the metropolis of Kiev and fled to Vladimir with all his clergy. Simeon then received the see of Rostov, which had become vacant when Bishop Tarasius left it. A year after his move to Rostov, Bishop Simeon accompanied Metropolitan Maximus to Novgorod, where the two consecrated the archbishop there, Theoctistus, on 29 June 1300.

He left his diocese in 1311 and reposed in 1314 at Suzdal.