more recent studies mentioned much earlier years 1618 or 1619. The clergyman was buried in the church of the Holy Trinity in the Basilian monastery in Vilnius. His remains were probably removed from the tomb and exported out of the city by the Russian army after the capture of Vilnius in 1655. Due to his active role in the installation of False Dmitriy I to the Moscow throne and later conversion to the Unia, Ignatius has suffered from damnatio memoriae in subsequent ages and often is not counted among the legitimate patriarchs by the Russian Orthodox Church. Even though his predecessor Patriarch Job was removed from his post by force, the legitimacy of Ignatius' election and his status as patriarch was not questioned by his contemporaries. References External links Profile at Drevo-info.ru Site (Rus) 1540 births 1620 deaths Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow 17th-century Eastern Catholic bishops Russian Eastern Catholics Converts to Eastern Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy Greek Eastern Catholics