Monument to Metropolitan of Siberian (Tobolsk) Philotheus (Leschinsky)

Monument to the famous missionary Metropolitan of Siberian (Tobolsk) Philotheus (Leschinsky) near the Holy Trinity Monastery in Tyumen. St. Philotheus, Metropolitan of Tobolsk and All Siberia, was the first to initiate spiritual education in Siberia. With his participation in 1703, by decree of Peter I, the first Slavic-Russian school was opened in Tobolsk. During the period of the mission in the Ob North, the Metropolitan of Siberian and Tobolsk converted about 40 thousand local pagans to Christianity.