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On [[May 13]], 1589, he was consecrated [[bishop]] and became the first [[Metropolitan]] of [[Diocese of Kazan|Kazan]]. In 1591 the saint gathered newly baptized Tatars into the cathedral church, and for several days he instructed them in the Faith.
On January 9, 1592, St Hermogenes asked Patriarch [[Job of Moscow|Job]] for permission to commemorate in his [[See]] of Kazan those Orthodox soldiers who gave their lives for the Faith and the nation in a battle against the Tatars. He mentioned three [[martyr]]s who had suffered at Kazan for their faith in Christ, one of whom was a Russian named John ([[January 24]]), born at Nizhny Novgorod and captured by the Tatars. The other two, Stephen and Peter ([[March 24]]), were newly converted Tatars. The patriarch issued a decree on [[February 25]] which said to celebrate throughout all the Kazan Metropolitanate a [[Memorial Services|panikhida]] for all the Orthodox soldiers killed at Kazan and the environs of Kazan, on the Saturday following the Feast of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos ([[October 1]]). The patriarch also ordered that the three Kazan [[martyr]]s be inscribed in the Synodicon.
St Hermogenes displayed passion in the observance of Church traditions, and he devoted himself to enlightening the Kazan Tatars with the faith of Christ.
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before= ?[[Tikhon II of Kazan|Tikhon II]]|title=[[List of bishops of the Diocese of Kazan|Metropolitan of Kazan]]|
years=1589 - 1606|
after= ?[[Ephraim of Kazan|Ephraim]]}}
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before= Ignatius |
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