Patriarch Joachim of Moscow

Joachim (Russian: Иоаким)
Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus'
Patriarch Joseph, a 19th-century hand-drawn lubok
Church	Russian Orthodox Church
See	Moscow
Predecessor	Pitirim
Successor	Adrian
Personal details
Born	January 6, 1621 Sibkovo, 10 km south-west of Mozhayska, Russia
Died	March 17, 1690
Buried	Dormition Cathadrel, Moscow Kremlin
Profession	Civil Servant, Tsardom of Russia

Patriarch Joachim (Russian: Иоаким) (1620 – March 17, 1690) was the eleventh Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, an opponent of the Raskol (the Old Believer schism), and a founder of the Slavic Greek Latin Academy.

Born Ivan Petrovich Savelov (Иван Петрович Савелов), Joachim was of noble origin. When his family died in the 1654 epidemic, he became a monk and served in various monasteries, receiving the religious name Joachim upon his tonsure.

In 1664 Joachim was elevated to the rank of archimandrite and became hegumen (abbot) of the Chudov Monastery and in 1672 was consecrated as Metropolitan of Novgorod. He was elected a Patriarch on July 26, 1674, following the death of Patriarch Pitirim. Although Joachim had participated in the council which deposed Patriarch Nikon, he continued Nikon's policies with regard to the Old Believers, and defending church authorities against the encroachments of Caesaropapism by the Tsars.

In 1686, he made an agreement with Bulgarian Rostislav Stratimirovic to aid in a revolt against the Ottomans.