Joasaphus, Metropolitan of Moscow
Joasaphus | |
|---|---|
| Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia | |
Miniature from the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible | |
| Church | Russian Orthodox Church |
| See | Moscow |
| Installed | 1539 |
| Term ended | 1542 |
| Predecessor | Daniel |
| Successor | Macarius |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 1555 or 1556 |
Joasaphus Skripitsyn (also spelled Ioasaph or Joasaph; Russian: Иоасаф (Скрипицын); died 1555 or 1556) was Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, from 1539 to 1542. He was the ninth metropolitan in Moscow to be appointed without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as had been the norm.
Joasaph is known to have authored a number of theological works.