Leonti Mroveli was the 11th-century Georgian

Georgia (country)

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 chronicler, presumably an ecclesiastic. Mroveli is not his last name, but the adjective for the diocese of Ruisi, whose bishop

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 he probably was. Hence, another modern English

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 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

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; once in Euthymius of Athos

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’s translation of Chrysostom

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’s commentary to St. Matthew

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; and, most specifically, on a 1066 inscription from the Trekhvi caves in central Georgia. Assumptions that Leonti Mroveli belonged to the eight or early tenth century now seem implausible. This Mroveli no longer occupied the post in 1103, for he is not attested in the act of the Georgian ecclesiastic synod convened at Ruisi and the neighboring cathedral of Urbnisi

Urbnisi

Urbnisi is a village in Georgia’s Shida Kartli region, in the district of Kareli.Situated on the Mtkvari river, it was an important city in ancient and early medieval Iberia as Georgia was known to the Greeks and Romans. Archaeological studies have demonstrated that the place was inhabited in the...

 by King David IV

David IV of Georgia

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. Leonti is credited by some historians to have written several pieces of the medieval compendium of Georgian chronicles, while others consider him only a compiler

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of earlier texts. In any case, Leonti Mroveli as chronicler shifted the balance of Georgian literature from the ecclesiastic to the secular.