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Jonah of Moscow ( Russian: Иона, romanized : Iona; died 31 March 1461) [1] was Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus' from 1448 until his death in 1461.
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Saint Jonah was born in the city of Galich into a pious Christian family. The date of his birth is not known. His father was named Theodore. He was tonsured as a monasticin one of the Galich monasteries when he was only twelve years old. In the late 1420s, Jonah transferred to the Simonov Monastery, where he again fulfilled various obediences for m...
Bernard Pares, A History of Russia, London, Jonathan Cape, 1955Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, A History of Russia, New York, Oxford University Press, 1977Jun 15, 2016 · St Jonah was unanimously chosen Metropolitan of All Russia. He was consecrated by Russian hierarchs in Moscow, with the blessing of Patriarch Gregory III (1445-1450) of Constantinople.
Jun 28, 2022 · St Jonah was unanimously chosen Metropolitan of All Russia. He was consecrated by Russian hierarchs in Moscow, with the blessing of Patriarch Gregory III (1445-1450) of Constantinople.
May 24, 2022 · St Jonah, the first primate of the Russian Church following its declaration of autocephaly in 1448.
Jun 15, 2021 · Saint Jonah was unanimously chosen Metropolitan of All Russia. He was consecrated by Russian hierarchs in Moscow, with the blessing of Patriarch Gregory III (1445-1450) of Constantinople.
On July 7, 2012, the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America accepted Metropolitan Jonah’s resignation from the Metropolitan See with the title “His Eminence, Metropolitan Jonah, former Archbishop of Washington and Metropolitan of All-America and Canada”.
