Leonti Mroveli

Leonti Mroveli

Leonti Mroveli (Georgian: ლეონტი მროველი) was the 11th-century Georgian chronicler, presumably an ecclesiastic. Mroveli is not his last name, but the adjective for the diocese of Ruisi, whose bishop he probably was. Hence, another modern English transliteration of his name is Leontius of Ruisi. Apart from late annotations to the manuscripts of The Georgian Chronicles, an archbishop of Ruisi named Leonti is mentioned only thrice: once in an 11th-century manuscript from Mount Athos; once in Euthymius of Athos's translation of Chrysostom's commentary to St. Read more on Wikipedia

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