Arseny the Greek (c. 1610 – after 1666)

Arseny the Greek (c. 1610 – after 1666)

Hieromonk, church leader. He came to Moscow in 1649 together with Patriarch Paisius of Jerusalem. On behalf of the patriarch, Nikon supervised the correction and translation of liturgical books. In 1653 he opened a Greek-Latin school in the Moscow Kremlin to teach Greek and Latin. In 1662, he was convicted of heresy and exiled to the Solovetsky Monastery.