Patriarch Joachim of Moscow

Patriarch Joachim (Russian: Иоахим; born Ivan Petrovich Savelov (Иван Петрович Савелов), 1620—March 17, 1690) was the eleventh Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, an opponent of theRaskol (the Old Believer Schism), and a founder of the Slavic Greek Latin Academy.

Joachim was of noble origin. When his family died in 1654 epidemic, he became a monk and served in various cloisters. In 1664 Joachim became an archimandrite of the Chudov Monastery and in 1672 a metropolitan of Novgorod.¹ On July 26, 1674 he was elected a Patriarch.

Footnotes

¹ Pavel Tikhomirov, Kafedra Novgorodskikh Sviatitelei (Novgorod, 1895), vol. 2.

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Preceded by Pitirim	Patriarch of Moscow 1674–1690	Succeeded by Adrian