MALEVANSKY, SILVESTRO. – Russian bishop and theologian, born in 1828, died in 1908. After having been rector of the Academy of Kiev, in 1885 he was appointed bishop of Kanev. He devoted particular attention to the study of tradition and left a work in five volumes, entitled Compendio di teologia dogmatica ortodoxa, with a historical exposition of the dogmas (Kiev 1892–98).
BIBL.: Th. I. Titov, Preovjascennii Sil'vestr byvlii episkop Kanevskii, Rektor Kiovskoi dukhovnoi Akademii, in Trudy Kiovskoi dukhovn. Akad., 1 (1909), pp. 136–46. Maurizio Gordillo