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Theodosius (
Феодосий in
Russian) (? -
1475) -
Metropolitan of
Moscow in
1461-
1464.
In
1454, when Theodosius was still an
archimandrite in Moscow's
Chudov Monastery, he was promoted to the
Archbishop of
Rostov. After the death of
Jonas in 1461, Theodosius became the Metropolitan of Moscow (he was chosen by Jonas himself).
Theodosius's appointment marked a new period of actual independence of the
Russian Orthodox Church from the
Patriarch of Constantinople. Theodosius was the first metropolitan, who had been appointed by the
Grand Prince as a representative from the
Byzantine emperor.
Since his first days as a metropolitan, Theodosius decided to start eradicating unscrupulousness among the
priests and educating the
clergy in his
eparchy. He didn't want to make real
pastors of them, because most of them were
illiterate. The only thing Theodosius wanted was to make them stop seducing ordinary people with their dissolute lifestyles.
Theodocius's attempts at reshaping the clergy failed. When he started sifting through the priests and
defrocking those unfit for preaching, many parishes were left without priests. Ordinary people had nothing against their priests, therefore, they started to voice their discontent and damn the metropolitan. Theodosius decided to retire and moved to Chudov Monastery after only 3 years of being a metropolitan.
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