Job | |
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Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus' | |
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Church | Russian Orthodox Church |
See | Moscow |
Installed | 26 January 1589 |
Term ended | June 1605 |
Successor | Ignatius |
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Born | Ioann (Russian: Иоанн) unknown |
Died | 19 June 1607 Staritsa |
Buried | Dormition Cathedral, Moscow |
Job (Russian: Иов, Iov), also known as Job of Moscow (d. 19 June 1607), was the first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. He is venerated as a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church. He was the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus' from 1587 to 1589. He was the seventeenth Metropolitan in Moscow to be appointed without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as had been the norm. In 1589, Jeremias II, the Patriarch of Constantinople, regularized Job's canonical status and raised him to the status of patriarch.