What is Cornelius Jakobs?
[[File:Metropolita Korneliusz (Jakobs).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Jakobs in May 2017]] '''Metropolitan Cornelius Jakobs''' ({{lang-ru|Митрополит Корнилий}} or secular name '''Vjatšeslav Vassiljevitš Jakobs''', or '''Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Yakobs''', {{lang-ru|Вячеслав Васильевич Якобс}}; 19 June 1924 – 19 April 2018) was the [[Metropolitan bishop]] of [[Tallinn]] and All [[Estonia]], the head of the [[Estonian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate]] from 1992 until his death in 2018. He was born in Tallinn. He became the oldest bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church and celebrated his 90th birthday in 2014.<ref>[http://uudised.err.ee/index.php?06168571 ''Metropoliit Kornelius tähistab 85. sünnipäeva''] (ERR Uudised, 19 June 2009) {{in lang|et}}</ref> Jakobs died on 19 April 2018 in Tallinn at the age of 93.<ref>[https://www.ohtuleht.ee/872065/galerii-suri-tallinna-ja-kogu-eesti-metropoliit-kornelius Suri Tallinna ja kogu Eesti metropoliit Kornelius] {{in lang|et}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/56439.html Корнилий, митрополит Таллинский и всея Эстонии (Якобс Вячеслав Васильевич)] on Official site of the Russian Orthodox Church {{in lang|ru}} * [http://www.orthodox.ee/epc/index.php/et/primate-est Tallinna ja kogu Eesti metropoliit Kornelius] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314121219/http://www.orthodox.ee/epc/index.php/et/primate-est |date=2014-03-14 }} {{in lang|et}} * [http://www.pravmir.com/printer_218.html Message of Kornelius Mitropolitan of Tallinn and all Estonia] * [http://www.religioscope.com/info/notes/2002_042_estonia.htm ESTONIA: MOSCOW ORTHODOX CHURCH FINALLY REGISTERED] (Keston News Service, 19 April 2002) {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacoks, Cornelius}} [[Category:1924 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Eastern Orthodox bishops]] [[Category:People from Tallinn]]