Filofei (Филофей in Russian) (? - ?, Pskov) was a hegumen of the Yelizarov Monastery in Pskov in the 16th century. He is credited with authorship of the Legend of the White Cowl and the Third Rome prophesy. The Trinity Cathedral (1682-99) is a symbol of Pskovs former might and independence. ... Hegumen, hegumenos, or ihumen (Greek: ἡγοÏμενος , Russian: игумен) is the title for the head of a monastery of the Eastern Orthodox Church, similar to the one of abbot. ... Yeleazarovsky Monastery is a small convent founded in 1447 to the north of Pskov, along the road leading to Gdov, by a local peasant named Eleazar. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... The Legend of the White Cowl is a Russian Orthodox story first recorded by the monk Philotheus of Pskov in 1510. ... Coat of arms of the last imperial dynasty of the Eastern Roman Empire. ...
This was particularly true in such cities as Novgorod or Pskov, where princes were constantly changing and the only authority recognized by the populace of these commercial centers was that of their bishops.
These were the south-western provinces of Galicia and Volhynia; the north-western corner dominated by the city republics of Novgorod and Pskov; and the north-eastern woodlands with their chief towns of Vladimir, Rostov, Iaroslavl, and Susdal.
Philotheus, one of the Russian scholars, an elder of a monastery in Pskov, formulated this wide-spread belief in his epistle addressed to Basil III.
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