The family lineage of Saint Ignatius of Mariupol: The Last Metropolitan of Gothea and Kaffa
Author: Nicholas Makmak, Igor Tasits, Mary Pirgo, Yuriy Chubar
Published date: 02 August 2025
Format: pdf
Price: 6.99 USD

The book describes the genealogy of Saint Ignatius of Mariupol, the last Metropolitan of the Gotfeo-Kafai Diocese and the spiritual leader of the resettlement of Christians from the Crimean Khanate to the Russian Empire in 1778. The genealogy begins with the Fourth Crusade in the 13th century and is traced to the present day. Along with generational genealogies, the book presents genealogical trees of the Byzantine branch of the Venetian feudal Gozzadini family and the Russian noble Gozadinov family. The appendix contains texts of archival documents that allow us to understand what Metropolitan Ignatius and his descendants were like.