Patriarch Joachim

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other persons named Joachim, see Joachim (disambiguation).

Patriarch Joachim (Russian: Иоахим; born Ivan Petrovich Savelov (Иван Петрович Савелов), 1620—March 17, 1690) was the eleventh Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, an opponent of Raskol and a founder of the Slavic Greek Latin Academy.

Joachim was of noble origin. When his family died in 1654 epidemic, he became a monk and served in various cloisters. In 1664 Joachim became an archimandrite of the Chudov Monastery and in 1672 a metropolitan of Novgorod. On July 26, 1674 he was elected a Patriarch.