Holy Hierarch Job, Patriarch of Moscow

Job, born John, came from the town of Staritsa. He became a monk in 1556, then bishop of Kolomna in 1581, bishop of Rostov in 1586 and Metropolitan of Moscow in 1587. In 1589, with the visiting Patriarch Jeremiah II of Constantinople, he became the first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, closely allied with Tsar Boris Godunov. In 1605 the pretender known as False Dmitry I removed him from office, and he was sent back to a monastery in Staritsa. He died there on 19 June 1607 (Old Style). The Russian Church canonized him in 1989.