Job of Moscow
Metropolitan of Moscow whom Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople installed as the first patriarch of Moscow and all Russia on 26 January 1589.
Job was metropolitan of Moscow when Jeremias II of Constantinople came to Russia. The court record says that the tsar would not have him displaced by a Greek patriarch who knew neither the customs nor the language, that the council of January 1589 put his name forward with others, and that the tsar chose him. Jeremias installed him on Sunday 26 January, repeating over him the whole rite of a bishop’s consecration (Russian ambassadorial records, in Muravyov, Relations with the East, 19–26 January 1589).
The tsar’s charter of May 1589 names him patriarch of the reigning city of Moscow and of all Rus and provides that he and his successors install the Russian metropolitans, archbishops and bishops (Charter of the Moscow Patriarchate (1589) narrative and decrees). The council of Constantinople in 1590 confirmed his title and gave him the place after the patriarch of Jerusalem (Synodal charter of Constantinople (1590) in Muravyov, under June 1590). See Moscow Becomes a Patriarchate.
In the timeline
- 26 January 1589, firm dateMoscow Becomes a Patriarchate
In January 1589 Jeremias II of Constantinople, visiting Russia, installs Metropolitan Job as the first patriarch of Moscow. A council at Constantinople confirms it in 1590 and ranks Moscow fifth. The tsar’s charter calls the Russian realm the Third Rome.