- Patriarch Joachim
Patriarch Joachim ( _ru. Иоахим) (1620—
March 17 ,1690 ) was the eleventhPatriarch of Moscow and All Russia , an opponent of the "Raskol " (theOld Believer schism ), and a founder of theSlavic Greek Latin Academy .Born Ivan Petrovich Savelov (Иван Петрович Савелов), Joachim was of noble origin. When his family died in the 1654 epidemic, he became a
monk and served in variousmonasteries , receiving thereligious name Joachim upon histonsure .In 1664 Joachim was elevated to the rank of
archimandrite and becamehegumen (abbot) of theChudov Monastery and in 1672 wasconsecrated as Metropolitan of Novgorod. [Pavel Tikhomirov, "Kafedra Novgorodskikh Sviatitelei" (Novgorod, 1895), vol. 2. ru icon] He was elected a Patriarch onJuly 26 , 1674, following the death of Patriarch Pitirim. Although Joachim had participated in the council which deposedPatriarch Nikon , he continued Nikon's policies with regard to theOld Believers , and defending church authorities against the encroachments ofCaesaropapism by theTsar s.Footnotes
Works
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*"Слово поучительное"External links
* [http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/franks/classes/131b/perm/petrinedocs1.html#Document_#5 The Testament of Patriarch Joachim]
*ru icon [http://www.pravoslavie.ru/archiv/archiereology07.htm Патриарх Московский и всея Руси Иоаким (Савелов)]
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