Athanasius, Metropolitan of Moscow
Athanasius | |
|---|---|
| Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia | |
Afanasy blesses Ivan the Terrible | |
| Church | Russian Orthodox Church |
| See | Moscow |
| Installed | March 1564 |
| Term ended | May 1566 |
| Predecessor | Macarius |
| Successor | Philip II |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 1570s |
Athanasius (Russian: Афанасий; secular name: Andrey; died 1570s) was Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, from March 1564 to May 1566. He was the eleventh metropolitan in Moscow to be appointed without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as had been the norm.