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The bishop of the provincial capital, the metropolitan, enjoyed certain rights over other bishops in the province, later called "suffragan bishops". [ 3 ] The term metropolitan may refer in a similar sense to the bishop of the chief episcopal see (the "metropolitan see") of an ecclesiastical province .
In 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimea and initiated a proxy war in the Donbas area of Ukraine, right up until the beginning of the full-fledged war against Ukraine and afterwards, Putin and Patriarch Kirill have used Russian world ideology as a principal justification for the invasion.
Metropolitan Cornelius (Russian: Митрополит Корнилий, secular name Konstantin Ivanovich Titov, Russian: Константи́н Ива́нович Тито́в; born August 1, 1947) is a Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church bishop; Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church (since October 18 ...
In 1316 the Metropolitan of Kiev changed his see to the city of Vladimir, and in 1322 moved again to Moscow. In 1589, the see was elevated to a Patriarchate . The Patriarchate was abolished by the Church reform of Peter the Great in 1721 and replaced by the Most Holy Governing Synod , and the Bishop of Moscow came to be called a Metropolitan again.
The Russian Church came to function independently as a council of Russian bishops elected their own metropolitan without reference to Constantinople. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] After Constantinople fell in 1453, Moscow became the only independent Orthodox power and its leaders soon began to advance the claim that Moscow was the successor to the Byzantine ...
Metropolitan Anthony (Russian: Митрополит Антоний, secular name Anton Yuryevich Sevryuk, Russian: Антон Юрьевич Севрюк; born 12 October 1984), is the primate of the Patriarchal Exarchate in Western Europe of the Russian Orthodox Church. He holds the title of "Metropolitan of Volokolamsk".
On May 12–14, 2003, the Synod of Bishops of the ROCOR decided that Archimandrite Peter (Loukianoff) would be a vicar bishop of the Chicago diocese with the title bishop of Cleveland. [2] July 12, 2003, the feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul at the Protection of the Theotokos cathedral in Des Plaines, Illinois, his bishop nomination was ...
Joseph Semashko (Ukrainian: Йосиф Семашко; Polish: Józef Siemaszko; Russian: Иосиф Семашко; 25 December 1798 – 23 November 1868) was an Eastern Catholic priest and bishop who played a central role in the highly controversial conversion of the Ruthenian Uniate Church of the western provinces of the Russian Empire to Russian Orthodoxy in 1837–1839. [1]