Dionysius II, Metropolitan of Moscow

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Dionysius II (Russian: Дионисий) (? - 1591) was Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia between 1581 and 1587.

Dionysius was elected metropolitan by Ivan the Terrible in 1581. He was notable for his eloquence and a number of works (all of them lost), for which he would be nicknamed Грамматик (Grammar man). Being a close friend of the Shuisky family, Dionysius managed to reconcile them with the Godunovs in 1585. At the same time, he attempted to persuade tsar Feodor I to divorce Irina Godunova, for which Dionysius would be arbitrarily deposed from his post by Boris Godunov in 1587 and exiled to the Khutyn Monastery.

Dionysius died in the Khutyn Monastery in 1591.