Anthony, Metropolitan of Moscow
Anthony | |
|---|---|
| Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia | |
| Church | Russian Orthodox Church |
| See | Moscow |
| Installed | 1572 |
| Term ended | 1581 |
| Predecessor | Cyril |
| Successor | Dionysius |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1501 |
| Died | 1581 |
Anthony (Russian: Антоний; 1501–1581) was Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, from 1572 to 1581. He was the fifteenth metropolitan in Moscow to be appointed without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as had been the norm.