Macarius
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Macarius is the name of a number of people:
- Macarius of Egypt: (300-390) Egyptian monk and hermit. Also known as Macarius the Elder or St. Macarius the Great
- Macarius of Alexandria: Also known as Macarius the Younger.
- Macarius Magnes
- Macarius of Jerusalem
- Macarius of Constantinople
- Venerable Macarius of Yellow Water Lake and Unzha (1349-1444), founder of several Russian monasteries.
- Macarius (1482-1563), metropolitan of Moscow
- Macarius I, head of the Holy Synod in 1879-1882 in Russia, better known as his church's leading historian.
- Macarius II, head of the Holy Synod in 1912-1917 in Russia.
- Macarius of Alexandria, a martyr, saint, and companion of Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria
- Makarios is another way of transcribing the same Greek name into the Latin alphabet. See Makarios III for an account of the archbishop and ethnarch of Cyprus who bore that name.
- Macarius-Symeon: (949-1022) Eastern Orthodox saint. Also known as Pseudo-Macarius, or Symeon the New Theologian.