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Jonah of Moscow

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[[Image:Hierarchs of Moscow.JPG|frame|right|Synaxis of the Hierarchs of Moscow]]Our father among the [[saint]]s '''Jonah''' (+ 1461?), also '''Jonas''', was the Metropolitan of Moscow and of All Russia between 1448 and 1461. He is also called the Wonderworker. He was [[metropolitan]] during the times that the princes of Moscow gained influence and power at the same time the Church of Constantinople fell under the rule of the Ottoman Turks. The Church remembers him on [[March 31]] and [[June 15]], the [[Translation (relics)|translation ]] of his relics on [[May 27]] and as a member of the [[Synaxis of the Hierarchs of Moscow]] on [[October 5]] .
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