LOPATINSKIJ, TEOFILATTO. - Russian theologian and controversialist. A student in Kiev, he remained faithful to the orientation of its academy even during his teaching at the Ecclesiastical Academy of Moscow, of which he was appointed rector in 1706. In 1723 he was appointed archbishop of Tver and vice-president of the Holy Synod.
He took an active part both in the Slavonic version of the Bible and in the theological controversies of his time against the Raskolnici, against the Lichudi brothers, and against the Protestants and their supporters, led by Teofane Prokopovič, who succeeded in having L. deprived of his see and imprisoned for five years at Viborg. He was released in 1740.
He wrote: a theological course entitled Scientia sacra disputationibus theologii SS. Ecclesiae orientalis, Scripturae, conciliis et Patribus consentaeis speculative et controverse illustrata; Iugum Domini suave est, against Prokopovič; Apologia « Petra fidei » adversus Buddaei criminationes; Refutatio mendaciorum Rascolnicorum. The latter work was the only one printed (Moscow, 1745, posthumously).