Cyril, Metropolitan of Moscow

He was the fourteenth metropolitan in Moscow to be appointed without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as had been the norm.

[1][2] During Cyril's term, Ivan the Terrible's fierceness reached its climax.

[3] In 1571, a Crimean khan Devlet I Giray attacked Moscow and ravaged the city.

[4] Metropolitan Cyril had to hide in the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin to avoid death.

Metropolitan Cyril died on 8 February 1572,[5] and was interred at the Novinsky Monastery.