Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow

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Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow
Metropolitans of Moscow and all Russia
Icon of St. Philip, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia
Church	Russian Orthodox Church
See	Moscow
Installed	1566
Term ended	1568
Predecessor	Herman of Kazan and Svyazhsk
Successor	Cyril, Metropolitan of Moscow

Saint Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow
Icon of St. Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow (Trapeza of the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra)
Hieromartyr
Born	11 February 1507 Galich
Died	23 December 1569 (aged 62) Otroch Monastery Tver
Venerated in	Eastern Orthodox Church
Major shrine	Dormition Cathedral, Moscow
Feast	9 January (primary feast day) 3 July (translation of his relics) 5 October (Synaxis of the Hierarchs of Moscow)
Attributes	Vested as a hierarch with omophorion, holding a Gospel Book, with his right hand raised in blessing. Iconographically, he is depicted with a medium sized dark beard with flecks of grey.

Saint Philip II of Moscow (11 February 1507 – 23 December 1569) was the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus' from 1566 to 1568. He was the thirteenth Metropolitan of Moscow to be appointed without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as had been the norm.

He was one of a few metropolitans who dared openly to contradict Ivan the Terrible. It is widely believed that the tsar had him murdered on that account. He is venerated as a saint and martyr in the Eastern Orthodox Church.