Feodosy Kosoy

Feodosy Kosoy, "Feodosy the Squint-Eyed" (Феодосий Косой) (fl. 1550s) was a Russian serf-monk in the time of Ivan the Terrible. His preaching was condemned along with that Matvei Bashkin and the Abbot Artemy in 1553.[1] He fled to the safety of Lithuania and the community of Polish Brethren.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Ivan the Terrible as a religious type: a study of the background Alexander Dvorkin - 1992 "Beginning of a series of Church councils (1553-55) which lead to the condemnation as heretics of Matvei Bashkin, Feodosy Kosoy, and the monk Artemy."
  2. ↑ Anglican theological review: Volume 4 - 1922 "Ivan the Terrible showed great zeal in suppressing these reformers and finally the last of the leaders, Feodosy Kosoy (the Squint-eyed), fled to Poland and met there the preachers of Western Unitarianism who had reached the same ..."
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