Athanasius, Metropolitan of Moscow

Metropolitan
Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia
ChurchRussian Orthodox Church
SeeMoscow
InstalledMarch 1564
Term endedMay 1566
PredecessorMacarius, Metropolitan of Moscow
SuccessorHerman of Kazan and Svyazhsk
Personal details
Bornearly 16th century
Died1570s

Athanasius (Russian: Афанасий; real name – Андрей, or Andrei) (early 16th century – 1570s) was the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus' from March 1564[1] to May 1566.[2] He was the eleventh metropolitan in Moscow to be appointed without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as had been the norm.

  1. ^ Вопросы истории религии и атеизма: сборник статей (in Russian). Издательство Академии наук СССР. 1963. p. 279. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
  2. ^ Зимин, Александр Александрович (1977). Крупная феодальная вотчина и социально-политическая борьба в России: конец XV-XVI в (in Russian). Наука. p. 312. Retrieved 24 May 2024.