Anthim the Iberian

Anthim the Iberian (Romanian: Antim Ivireanul, Georgian: ანთიმოზ ივერიელი - Antimoz Iverieli; secular name: Andria; 1650 — September or October 1716) was one of the greatest ecclesiastic figures of Wallachia (and, through modern extension, Romania), a noted Eastern Orthodox theologian and philosopher, founder of the first printing press in Romania, and Metropolitan of Bucharest in 1708-1715. He was an ethnic Georgian born in Caucasian Iberia (Kartli, nowadays in the Republic of Georgia). Anthim was taken prisoner by Ottoman Empire troops, and took orders in Istanbul, while living on the compounds of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. In 1689 or 1690, he was asked to settle in Wallachia by Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu, and...