Feodosy Kosoy, "Feodosy the Squint-Eyed" (Феодосий Косой) (fl. 1550s) was a Russian serf-monk in the time of Ivan the Terrible. He preached full equality, rejecting church hierarchy, the Trinity, the sacraments, icons, and churches.[1] His preaching was condemned along with that Matvei Bashkin and the Abbot Artemy in 1553.[2] He fled to the safety of Lithuania and the community of Polish Brethren.[3]
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- ^ Victor Terras, A History of Russian Literature (Yale UP, 1991), p. 79 fn. 45.
- ^ 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 led to the condemnation as heretics of Matvei Bashkin, Feodosy Kosoy, and the monk Artemy."
- ^ 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 ..."