Jonah of Moscow

Jonah of Moscow (Иона in Russian) (died 1461), was the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus'. He reigned from 1448 to his death in 1461. He was appointed at the behest of the secular authorities in Muscovy as his predecessor on the throne — Isidore of Kiev — was adjudged to have apostatized to Catholicism. Like his immediate predecessors, he permanently resided in Moscow, and was the last Moscow-based primate of the metropolis to keep the traditional title with reference to the metropolitan city of Kiev. He was also the first metropolitan in Moscow to be appointed without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as had been the norm. He is recognised as a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church.