Varlaam, Metropolitan of Moscow

Varlaam
Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia
ChurchRussian Orthodox Church
SeeMoscow
Installed1511
Term ended1521
PredecessorSimon
SuccessorDaniel
Personal details
Born1441
Died24 March 1533

Varlaam (Russian: Варлаам; 1441–1533) was Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, from 1511 to 1521. He was the seventh metropolitan in Moscow to be appointed without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as had been the norm.

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