Simon, Metropolitan of Moscow

Simon
Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia
ChurchRussian Orthodox Church
SeeMoscow
Installed1495
Term ended1511
PredecessorZosimus
SuccessorVarlaam
Personal details
Died28 January 1512

Simon (Russian: Симон; died 1512) was Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, from 1495 to 1511. He was the sixth metropolitan in Moscow to be appointed without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as had been the norm.

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