Church of Cosmas and Damian, Novgorod

The Church of St. Cosmas and Damian on Kholop Street (Russian: Церковь святых Кузьмы и Демьяна на Холопьей улице), was a church in medieval Novgorod the Great located in the Nerev End, just north of the Detinets. It was a wooden church first built by Fedor Khotovich in 1271.^[1] It was rebuilt in 1303, probably after a fire in the Nerev End.^[2] and about a generation later was the parish church of Archbishop Vasilii Kalika prior to his election as archbishop of Novgorod in 1330 (he was known as Grigorii Kalika before taking monastic vows).^[3] Vasilii's parish church in Kholop Street was rebuilt in 1350 by the Posadnik (mayor) Iurii Ivanovich ^[4] That church apparently burned in 1352, the year Archbishop Vasilii died of the plague. It is unclear if a new church was ever built on the site; there is no longer a church at that location, which is now a park north of the Novgorod Kremlin.

References

1. A. N. Nasonov, Novgorodskaia Pervaia Letopis Starshego i Mladshego Izvodov [hereafter NPL](Moscow and Leningrad: ANSSSR, 1950), p. 89.
2. NPL, 91.
3. NPL 342-343; Michael C. Paul, "Episcopal Election in Novgorod, Russia 1156-1478," Church History 72, No. 2 (June 2003) p. 265.
4. Novgorodskaia Tretaia Letopis, Polnoe Sobranie Russkikh Letopisei, (St. Petersburg: Eduard Prats, 1841), Vol. 3 p. 227.