Cyril, Metropolitan of Moscow
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Cyril, Metropolitan of Moscow | |
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Metropolitans of Moscow and all Russia | |
Church | Russian Orthodox Church |
See | Moscow |
Installed | 1568 |
Term ended | 1572 |
Predecessor | Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow |
Successor | Anthony, Metropolitan of Moscow |
Personal details | |
Born | 1492 |
Died | 8 March 1572 |
Cyril IV (Russian: Кирилл) (died 8 February 1572) was the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus from 1568 until 1572.
There is not much information on Metropolitan Cyril and his deeds. In 1566, Cyril was appointed archmandrite at the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra. On 11 November 1568 he was elected metropolitan in favor of the recently deposed Metropolitan Philip. During Cyril's term, Ivan the Terrible's fierceness reached its climax. In 1571, a Crimean Khan Devlet I Giray attacked Moscow and ravaged the city. Metropolitan Cyril had to hide in the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin to avoid death. It was Cyril who had asked Ivan IV not to execute , accused of bringing the Tatars to the capital.
Metropolitan Cyril died on 8 February 1572 and was interred at the .
- 1572 deaths
- Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow
- 16th-century Eastern Orthodox bishops