Cyril IV (; died 8 February 1572) was Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus', the

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of the

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, from 1568 to 1572. He was the fourteenth metropolitan in Moscow to be appointed without the approval of the

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as had been the norm.

Biography

There is not much information on Cyril and his deeds. In 1566, Cyril was appointed archmandrite at the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra. On 11 November 1568, he was elected metropolitan in favor of the recently deposed Metropolitan Philip. During Cyril's term,

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's fierceness reached its climax. In 1571, a Crimean khan Devlet I Giray attacked

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and ravaged the city. Metropolitan Cyril had to hide in the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin to avoid death. It was Cyril who had asked Ivan IV not to execute Ivan Mstislavsky, accused of bringing the

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to the capital. Metropolitan Cyril died on 8 February 1572, and was interred at the Novinsky Monastery.

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