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 the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus', serving as the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1539 to 1542. He was the ninth metropolitan in Moscow appointed without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, a break from the earlier tradition that had required such information.
Joasaph is known to have authored a number of theological works.