Anastasia crimca

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Anastasie Crimca, miniature in the liturgical book , 1610
Anastasie Crimca with the Evangelist Johannes, Evangeliar, 1617

Anastasie Crimca (* around 1550/70 in Suceava , Principality of Moldova ; † 1629 ibid) was an Orthodox clergyman and author in today's Romania . He was Metropolitan of Moldavia from 1608 to 1617 and from 1619 to 1629. In 1609 he founded the Dragomirna Monastery .

Anastasie Crimca is depicted on several miniatures in manuscripts that he probably commissioned.

He is buried in Suceava Church.

literature

  • E. Turdeanu: Le Métropolite Anastase Crimca et son oeuvre littéraire et artistique (1608-1629). In: Revue des études slaves 29 (1952), pp. 58–65.