JAVORSKIJ, Stefan. — In Russian theology he represents the Catholic orientation in contrast to the Protestant one led by THEOPHANE PROKOPOVIČ, favorite of Peter the Great. Born in southern Russia, he studied in Kiev, then, at that time a Catholic, in the Jesuit colleges at Lviv and Poznań. Returning to schism, he became a monk in Kiev, where he also taught and became prefect of the Academy. In 1700 he became Metropolitan of Ryazan, and later patriarchal exarch in Moscow, where he established, on the model of that in Kiev, the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, teaching there for some time. J. accepted Peter’s political reforms, extolling his deeds, but refused to accept his ecclesiastical reforms and the interference of civil authorities in ecclesiastical affairs.
J.’s principal work is the *Kamen’ very* (originally written in Latin: *Petra fidei*), divided into 12 treatises, the most excellent of all works written by separated Easterners against Protestantism (heavily dependent on Bellarmine and Becanus). Other works by J. include the *Epistola ad doctos sorbonicos de Ecclesiarum unione* (1720, published in Germany), *Signa adventus Antichristi et finis mundi* (1703, against the Old Believers who taught that Peter was the Antichrist), *Sermons* (published in Moscow 1804–1805), and *Lectio theologiae dogmaticae* (Kiev 1693–1679, remaining in manuscript). Classic is the dissertation by the Slavophile Jurij Samarin on Theophane Prokopovič and S. J., written under the influence of A. S. Chomjakov.