Macarius Nevsky

Macarius Nevsky
Metropolitan and archbishop of Moscow
ChurchRussian Orthodox Church
SeeMoscow
Installed1912
Term ended1917
PredecessorVladimir Bogoyavlensky
SuccessorPatriarch Tikhon of Moscow
Personal details
Born1 October 1835
Died2 March 1926(1926-03-02) (aged 90)
Kotelniki, Moscow Governorate

Metropolitan Macarius (Russian: Митрополит Макарий, secular name Mikhail Andreyevich Nevsky, Russian: Михаил Андреевич Невский; 1 October 1835 – 2 March 1926) was the Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna from 1912 to 1917, an outstanding missionary and enlightener of the masses in the Altai region (people used to call him the "Siberian pillar of Orthodoxy" and "Apostle of the Altai").