Dionysius, Metropolitan of Moscow
Dionysius | |
|---|---|
| Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia | |
Ivan the Terrible and Metropolitan Dionysius receive merchants | |
| Church | Russian Orthodox Church |
| See | Moscow |
| Installed | 1581 |
| Term ended | 1587 |
| Predecessor | Anthony |
| Successor | Job |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1500s |
| Died | 1591 |
Dionysius (Russian: Дионисий; died 1591) was Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, from 1581 to 1587. He was the sixteenth metropolitan in Moscow to be appointed without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as had been the norm.