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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.
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.
Petro Mohyla, Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus'. In Christian churches with episcopal polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan (alternative obsolete form: metropolite [1]), pertains to the diocesan bishop or archbishop of a metropolis.
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".
Metropolitan Tikhon (Russian: Митрополит Тихон, secular name Georgiy Alexandrovich Shevkunov, Russian: Георгий Александрович Шевкунов; born 2 July 1958 in Moscow) is a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church and a popular writer. [1]
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 Ignatius (Deputatov) (Russian: Игнатий (Депутатов), secular name Alexei Mikhailovich Deputatov, Russian: Алексе́й Миха́йлович Депута́тов; born 22 January 1977), is a Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church. He presently holds the title of "Bishop of Saratov and Volsky" as well as ...
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 ...