Macarius Nevsky
Metropolitan Macarius (Russian: Митрополит Макарий, secular name Mikhail Andreyevich Nevsky, Russian: Михаил Андреевич Невский; October 1, 1835 – March 2, 1926) was the Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna from 1912 to 1917, an outstanding missionary and enlightener of the masses in the Altai region (people used to call him the "Siberian pillar of Orthodoxy" and "Apostle of the Altai").
Macarius Nevsky | |
|---|---|
| Metropolitan and archbishop of Moscow | |
| Church | Russian Orthodox Church |
| See | Moscow |
| Installed | 1912 |
| Term ended | 1917 |
| Predecessor | Vladimir Bogoyavlensky |
| Successor | Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 October 1835 |
| Died | 2 March 1926 (aged 90) Kotelniki, Moscow Governorate |
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