Venerable Savva Abbot of Moscow

Saint Savva of Moscow was a monk of the Savior–Andronikov Monastery in Moscow who succeeded its founding abbot, Saint Andronikos, as igumen (abbot). He belonged to the monastic milieu shaped by Saint Sergius of Radonezh, whose disciple Andronikos had established the cenobitic community on the Yauza River in Moscow under the patronage of Metropolitan Alexis. In becoming abbot, Savva continued the disciplined common life that his teacher had instituted.

Sources record little of Savva's early life, and the surviving accounts of him are brief, concentrating on his place in the succession of the Andronikov community rather than on independent events. He is commemorated on June 13, the same day as Saint Andronikos, reflecting the close association of the two abbots in the memory of the Russian Church.