Joasaph II (russian: Иоасаф II (Новоторжец), ''Joasaph of
Novy Torg'') was
Patriarch of Moscow
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and All Rus' from 1667 until his death five years and one day later in 1672.
Joasaph was
archimandrite
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of the Rozhdestvenskii (Nativity) Monastery in
Vladimir
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from 1654 to April 25, 1656, when he was named archimandrite of the
Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra. In 1666, he was a member of the court that tried
Patriarch Nikon
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and
deposed
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him, although it also approved his reforms that had led to the
Old Believer
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Schism.
On February 10, 1667, Joasaph was elected patriarch. He died February 11, 1672 and is buried in the
Dormition Cathedral in the
Moscow Kremlin.
[Makarii (Bulgakov), ''Istoriia russkoi tserkvi'' (Moscow) vol. XII, pp. 760-792. ]
References
External links
Joasaph's biography
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Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow
Burials at Dormition Cathedral, Moscow
17th-century Russian clergy
1672 deaths
17th-century Eastern Orthodox bishops
Year of birth unknown
Archimandrites