Person

Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow

c. 1482–1563 · 16th century · Also known as Saint Macarius of Moscow

Macarius was Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus' from 1542 to 1563 and a leading adviser of the young Ivan IV, whom he crowned as tsar in the Dormition Cathedral on 16 January 1547. Earlier archbishop of Novgorod, he compiled the Great Menaion Reader, a vast collection of religious texts, presided over councils in 1547 and 1549 that canonised many Russian saints, and led the Hundred Chapters Council of 1551.

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