Metropolis of Moscow and all Rus'

This article is about the metropolis established in the Tsardom of Moscow in 1448. For other metropolises with similar names, see Metropolis of Kiev.

The Metropolis of Moscow and all Rus' (Russian: Митрополия Московская и всея Руси, romanized: Mitropolija Moskovskaja i vseja Rusi[1]) was a metropolis that was unilaterally erected by hierarchs of the Eastern Orthodox Church in the territory of the Principality of Moscow[a] in 1448.[1] The first metropolitan was Jonah of Moscow; he was appointed without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.[4] The metropolis split from the Metropolis of Kiev and all Rus' because the previous metropolitan — Isidore of Kiev — had accepted the Union of Florence. Seventeen prelates succeeded Jonah until Moscow's canonical status was regularised in 1589 with the recognition of Job by the Ecumenical Patriarch. Job was also raised to the status of patriarch and was the first Patriarch of Moscow. The Moscow Patriarchate was a Caesaropapist entity that was under the control of the Russian state.[5] The episcopal seat was the Dormition Cathedral in Moscow.

  1. ^ a b Gorokhov & Khristov 2013, p. 124.
  2. ^ Russia: People and Empire, 1552–1917 by Geoffrey Hosking, Harvard University Press, 1998, ISBN 0674781198, page 46.
  3. ^ Russia and The Commonwealth of Independent States 2012 by M. Wesley Shoemaker, Stryker Post, 2012, ISBN 1610488938, page 10.
  4. ^ E. E. Golubinskii, Istoriia russkoi tserkvi (Moscow: Universitetskaia tipografiia, 1900), vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 469.
  5. ^ Bainton, Roland H. (1966), Christendom: A Short History of Christianity, vol. I, New York: Harper & Row, p. 119


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