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Saint Glicherie Tănase (n. 21 february/4 march 1892, Mihoveni, Romania – d. 28 june 1985, Slătioara Monastery, Suceava, Romania) was a Romanian clergyman, founder and the second First-Hierarch and Metropolitan of the Romanian Old Calendar Orthodox Church

Biography
Born on the 21st (9th Old Style) of February in 1892, in the village of Mihoveni, not very far from Suceava, in the peasant family of Nicolae (Nicholas) and Rahila (Rachel). He was Babtised with the name Gheorghe in honour of Saint George.

Becoming an orphan at the age of only 7 years old, after his father died and his mother left him, he was left in the care of his paternal uncle, Ilarion (Hilarion) Tănase, from whom since a young age was cultivated a belief in God.

Since childhood, Gheorghe wished to become a monk, and, in the year 1916, at the age of 25 years old, he was taken in at the Cetățuia (Citadel) Monastery near Iași. After a short while he was tonsured a monk with the name Glicherie, he was later Ordained as Hieromonk(monk priest) at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Neamț Monastery.

In order for him to be able to lead the Skete, in his aid came Hierodeacon(deacon monk) David Bidașcu, they later became close friends.

In October 1924 The Romanian Orthodox Church officially changed the Liturgical Calendar to the new Revised Julian Calendar (same with the Gregorian western calendar but with a Julian way of calculating Easter), thus the day of the 1st of October became the 14th of October, but Hieromonk Glicherie, Hierodeacon David and twelve other inhabitants of the Procrov Skete continued to keep the services according to the Old Calendar (Julian). Soon, at the Skete arrived a letter from Hieromonk Arsenie(Arsenius) Cotea, who was prompting all Orthodox Romanians to go against the Calendar reform, which he was as a capitulation towards Catholicism.

The Bishop Nicodim(Nicodemus) Munteanu, the future Patriarch, invited Hieromonk Glicherie to visit him. His Holiness(way of addressing a Bishop) Nicodim tried to convince him to not resist the Calendar Reform, promising to make him Stareț(elder/abbot) of the Skete next to theirs, Vovidenia. After Saint Glicherie and now Hieroschemamonk David discussed this issue, they refused the proposal, withdrawing to Râpa lui Coroi(Coroi's Slope), which was near Sihla Skete. There they built a pit-house, where they spent the winter. in the spring of 1926 they erected a 3 room dwelling, out of which one of the rooms was used as a chapel.

With three days before his repose The Holy Hierarch Glicherie called to him all the brothers of the Monastery and all the believers in the village of Slătioara and wished them goodbye. He reposed on the 28th (15th Old Style) of June in 1985 at the age of 93. He was buried in the Church of the Slătioara Monastery.

Canonisation
on the 12th of June 1997 his tomb was opened, from where his relics were taken.

In the year 1999, according to the decision of Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Old Calendar Church, the Metropolitan Glicherie was canonised by a multitude of bishops. His canonisation took place at the Slătioara Monastery, in the presence of an immense crowd on the day of the 28th(15th Old Style) of June 1999.