Jonah of Moscow | |
|---|---|
| Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus' | |
 Jonah on a shroud, 16th century | |
| Church | Russian Orthodox Church |
| See | Moscow |
| Installed | 1448 |
| Term ended | 1461 |
| Predecessor | Isidore |
| Successor | Theodosius |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1390s |
| Died | 31 March 1461 |
Jonah of Moscow (Russian: Иона, romanized: Iona; died 31 March 1461)[1] was Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus' from 1448 until his death in 1461.
After Isidore was condemned for supporting the Union of Florence, Jonah was appointed as metropolitan by a council of Russian bishops at the behest of Vasily II of Moscow.[2]
Like his immediate predecessors, he permanently resided in Moscow, and was the last Moscow-based primate of the metropolis to keep the traditional title with reference to the metropolitan city of Kiev. He was also the first metropolitan in Moscow to be appointed without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, as had been the norm,[3] which marked the beginning of autocephaly of the Russian Orthodox Church.[4] He is recognised as a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church.
- ^ Shubin 2004, p. 133.
- ^ ИОНА // Orthodox Encyclopedia
- ^ E. E. Golubinskii, Istoriia russkoi tserkvi (Moscow: Universitetskaia tipografiia, 1900), vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 469.
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