RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Patriarch Job of Moscow

1525 - 1607

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Job (Russian: Иов, romanized: Iov; died 19 June 1607) was Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, from 1587 to 1589, and the first Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' from 1589 to 1605. He was the seventeenth metropolitan in Moscow to be appointed without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as had been the norm. In 1589, Jeremias II, the patriarch of Constantinople, regularized Job's canonical status and raised him to the status of patriarch. 400 years later, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized him in 1989. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Patriarch Job of Moscow is the 1,998th most popular religious figure (down from 1,887th in 2019), the 984th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,093rd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Russian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Patriarch Job of Moscow ranks 1,998 out of 3,187. Before him are Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans, Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, Émilie de Villeneuve, Anthony of Kiev, Edward Cassidy, and Ishaq ibn Ali. After him are Giovanni Colombo, Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna, Jacob, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Theodor Innitzer, Stanislaus Hosius, and Enrico Dante.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1525, Patriarch Job of Moscow ranks 10. Before him are John George, Elector of Brandenburg, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Hans Staden, Zhang Juzheng, John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg, and Germain Pilon. After him are Juraj Drašković, Tadeáš Hájek, Caspar Peucer, and Abbakka Chowta. Among people deceased in 1607, Patriarch Job of Moscow ranks 14. Before him are Gillis van Coninxloo, Jacob van Heemskerck, Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst, Michele Ruggieri, Bento de Góis, and Guidobaldo del Monte. After him are Eleanor of Prussia, Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Giovanni Maria Nanino, and Bartholomew Gosnold.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Patriarch Job of Moscow ranks 984 out of 3,761. Before him are Elena Obraztsova (1939), Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891), Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov (1906), Galina Ustvolskaya (1919), Edison Denisov (1929), and Tamara Toumanova (1919). After him are Pavel Durov (1984), Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia (1891), Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799), Mikhail Boyarsky (1949), Buvaisar Saitiev (1975), and Yevgeny Khrunov (1933).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Russia

Among religious figures born in Russia, Patriarch Job of Moscow ranks 23. Before him are Alexander Schmorell (1917), Tode Mongke (1282), Stephen of Perm (1340), Anna Vyrubova (1884), Hyacinth (1777), and Abdurreshid Ibrahim (1857). After him are Theophan the Recluse (1815), Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov (1852), Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow (1877), Innocent of Alaska (1797), Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow (1910), and Matrona Nikonova (1881).

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