Kiev metropolitan area
The metropolis of Kiev ( Russian Киевская митрополия ) was the Orthodox ecclesiastical province of Kievan Rus and Ukraine from 988 to 1688. It was under the Patriarch of Constantinople .
history
In 988 the first bishop of Kiev was installed. He was also metropolitan of the Kievan Rus .
In 1240 Kiev was conquered by the Golden Horde and paid tribute. In 1299 the seat of the Metropolitan was moved to Vladimir .
In 1302/03 a separate metropolis of Galicia was established . In 1321 Kiev and western Russia came to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . In 1325 the seat of the Kiev Metropolitan was moved from Vladimir to Moscow . By 1331 at the latest, Lithuania had its own metropolitan. Since 1391 (1419) there was no more metropolitan for Galicia.
In 1437 the Patriarch of Constantinople became the abbot of the monastery of St. Demetrios Isidore was appointed as the new Metropolitan of Kiev, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the Moscow Grand Duke, who had sent one of his bishops, Iona von Riazan, to Constantinople for this post . Isidore of Kiev took part in the Council of Ferrara-Florence , at which the union of the Western and Eastern Churches was proclaimed. After his arrival from the council, he was able to proclaim the union in the eparchies that were in Poland-Lithuania . In northern Russia, however, he was arrested at the behest of the Moscow Grand Duke in March 1441. According to the different attitudes towards the Union of Florence, the Kiev metropolis was divided up by Pope Pius II in 1458. For the more southern eparchies located in Poland-Lithuania, the Pope appointed a pupil and companion of Isidore Gregory the Bulgarian as a metropolitan, whose rights as a metropolitan were confirmed by the Polish king and Grand Duke of Lithuania Kazimir Jagiellon . In the northern eparchies, however, Iona of Ryazan worked as metropolitan, who was elected Metropolitan of Kiev in 1448 at a synod of the northern eparchies, which were under the influence of Moscow. In 1451, Casimir, the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, recognized Iona as the Metropolitan of Kiev for his territories, but withdrew his recognition with the arrival of the Metropolitan of Kiev, Gregory the Bulgarian, who had been in charge of the Kiev Metropolitan Region since 1458. Nevertheless, Iona described himself as the Metropolitan of Kiev and all of Russia. After the death of Iona, however, the northern metropolitans only used the term "Metropolitan of Moscow", while the southern metropolitan kept the title "Metropolitan of Kiev and all of Russia". From 1439 to 1501 this metropolis of Kiev and all of Rus recognized the Union of Florence, so it was a Uniate Church . In 1596 the Greek Catholic Church was established in Ukraine . In 1620 a new Orthodox metropolitan was installed in Kiev. In 1688 the Orthodox metropolis of Kiev was subordinated to the Patriarchate of Moscow.
See also
- List of metropolitans of Kiev
- List of Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow
- List of Major Archbishops of Lviv