Patriarch Joachim of Moscow

For other people with the same name, seeJoachim (given name).

Joachim Иоаким
Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus'
Patriarch Joseph, a 19th-century hand-drawnlubok
Church	Russian Orthodox Church
See	Moscow
Predecessor	Pitirim
Successor	Adrian
Personal details
Born	(1620-01-06)January 6, 1620 Sibkovo,10 km south-west ofMozhayska,Russia
Died	March 17, 1690(1690-03-17)(aged 70)
Buried	Dormition Cathadrel,Moscow Kremlin
Profession	Civil Servant,Tsardom of Russia

Patriarch Joachim(Russian:Иоаким;January 6, 1620 – March 17, 1690) was the eleventhPatriarch of Moscow and All Russia,an opponent of theRaskol(theOld Believerschism), and a founder of theSlavic Greek Latin Academy.

BornIvan Petrovich Savelov(Иван Петрович Савелов) also in some other sources asIvan Petrovich Savyolov,Joachim was of noble origin. When his family died in the 1654 epidemic, he became amonkand served in variousmonasteries,receiving thereligious nameJoachim upon histonsure.

Old Believer PriestNikita PustosviatDisputing with Patriarch Joachim on Matters of Faith.Painting byVasily Perov(1880).

In 1664, Joachim was elevated to the rank ofarchimandriteand becamehegumen(abbot) of theChudov Monasteryand in 1672 wasconsecratedasMetropolitanofNovgorod.He was elected a Patriarch on July 26, 1674, following the death ofPatriarch Pitirim.Although Joachim had participated in the council whichdeposedPatriarch Nikon,he continued Nikon's policies with regard to theOld Believers,and defending church authorities against the encroachments ofCaesaropapismby theTsars.

In 1686, he made an agreement with BulgarianRostislav Stratimirovicto aid in a revolt against the Ottomans. Patriarch Joachim also participated in, and directly supported the transfer of the Jurisdiction of the Metropolitanate of Kyiv from the Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Patriarchate of Moscow.

Works

• Увет духовный
• Слово поучительное

External links

• The Testament of Patriarch Joachim
• (in Russian)Патриарх Московский и всея Руси Иоаким (Савелов)