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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 the aftermath of the Bucha massacre on 3 April, Kirill, speaking in the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces, praised the armed forces for "feats" of service, saying Russia is "peaceful". [129] Representatives of the Vatican have criticized Kirill for his lack of willingness to seek peace in Ukraine. [130]
The Russian Greek Catholic Church is currently led by Bishop Joseph Werth as its ordinary, [4] who was appointed in 2004. As of 2019, there were around 3,000 members of the church. An exarchate was established in 1917, and Soviet repression meant that Eastern Catholics went underground.
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.
Metropolitan Joseph (Russian: Митрополит Иосиф, secular name Igor Anatolievich Balabanov, Russian: Игорь Анатольевич Балабанов; born January 31, 1954) is a Russian Orthodox bishop, metropolitan of Ulan-Ude and Buryatia. His Name Day is on the Monday of Holy Week.
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".
The Archdiocese of the Mother of God at Moscow or simply, Archdiocese of Moscow (Latin: Archidioecesis Moscoviensis Matris Dei, Russian: Архиепархия Матери Божией в Москве) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in Moscow, in Russia.
He was released in 1927, when he supported the declaration of Metropolitan Sergius, who controversially pledged loyalty of the Church to the Soviet authorities without concurrence of numerous senior members of the Orthodox, including Metropolitan Joseph (Petrovykh), head of the Leningrad (St Petersburg) diocese, who was deposed and later ...