Theodosius, Metropolitan of Moscow
Theodosius, Metropolitan of Moscow | |
|---|---|
| Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia | |
| Church | Russian Orthodox Church |
| See | Moscow |
| Installed | 1461 |
| Term ended | 1464 |
| Predecessor | Jonah of Moscow |
| Successor | Philip I, Metropolitan of Moscow |
| Personal details | |
| Born | unknown |
| Died | 15 October 1475 |
Theodosius (Феодосий in Russian) (died 1475) was the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia (1461–1464) in the Russian Orthodox Church. He was the second metropolitan in Moscow to be appointed by the civil authority without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as had been the norm.
In 1454, when Theodosius was still archimandrite of the Moscow Kremlin's Chudov Monastery, he was promoted to the office of Archbishop of Rostov. After the death of Metropolitan Jonah in 1461, Theodosius became Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus' in early May 1461.[1]
Theodosius's appointment marked a new period of actual independence of the
Since his first days as a metropolitan, Theodosius sought to eradicate unscrupulousness among the
Theodosius also had to contend with a metropolitanate in Lithuania which threatened to take the western eparchies of the Province of Moscow, most notably
Theodosius resigned the metropolitan office and retired to Chudov Monastery, where he had previously been archimandrite, after only 3 years. He later transferred to the
See also
References
- ^ E. E. Golubinskii, Istoriia russkoi tserkvi (Moscow: Universitetskaia tipografia, 1900), vol. 2 pt. 1, p. 518.
- ^ Golubinskii, Istoriia russkoi tserkvi, vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 530.
- ^ Golubinskii, Istoriia russkoi tserkvi, vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 518.
- ^ Golubinskii, Istoriia russkoi tserkvi, vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 531.