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Patriarch Adrian (Russian: Адриан; born Andrey, Андрей; 2 October 1638 – 16 October 1700) [1] was the last pre-revolutionary Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. According to historian Alexander Avdeyev, the future Patriarch Adrian was born in the last days of September 1638.
Adrian of May (died 875), Scottish saint from the Isle of May, martyred by Vikings; Adrian of Moscow (1627–1700), last pre-revolutionary Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia; Adrian of Nicomedia (died 306), martyr and Herculian Guard of the Roman Emperor Galerius Maximian; Adrian of Ondrusov (died 1549), Russian Orthodox saint and wonder-worker
Adrian of Poshekhonye (Russian: Адриан Пошехонский; died 1550) was a Russian Orthodox monk and iconographer, who was the founder and first hegumen (abbot) of the Dormition monastery in Poshekhonye, north Yaroslavl region.
Russian Orthodox icon of the martyrs Adrian and Natalia. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Saint Adrian shares a feast day with his wife on 26 August in the Church Calendar, which for the majority of Orthodox Christians remains on the Julian Calendar, is on 8 September in the Gregorian and global civil calendars; he also has feast days alone on 4 ...
The Russian Orthodox Church traces its beginnings to the Christianization of Kievan Rusʹ at Kiev in 988 AD. In 1316 the Metropolitan of Kiev changed his see to the city of Vladimir, and in 1322 moved again to Moscow.
Upon the death of Patriarch Adrian in 1700, [9] Peter I did not permit the election of a new patriarch; after 20 years he established a Theological College, soon renamed the Most Holy Synod, which, as a public body, acted as the general church administration from 1721 to 1917. The emperor (to 2 March 1917) was "the highest judge of the assembly."
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