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	Baptism of Kievan Rus' - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The baptism of Kiev most likely occurred in 988, when the Prince Vladimir I of Rus exhorted the residents of the capital city Kiev to the Dnieper river for baptism.
		This mass baptism became the iconic inaugural event in the forced Christianization of the state of Kievan Rus'.
		In 1988, the faithful of the Eastern Orthodox churches which have roots in the baptism of Kiev celebrated a millennium of Eastern Slavic Christianity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baptism_of_Kyiv (421 words)

	Against Baptism By Pouring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is the gift of adoption since in baptism we become the sons of God and the heirs of Christ, putting on Christ our Lord, by the word of Holy Apostle Paul: "As many of you that have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ." Without this, salvation is not possible.
		The method of baptism by triple immersion is indeed apostolic tradition, which the Orthodox Church firmly and unswervingly adheres to from apostolic times to this day.
		The baptismal vessel should not be used for any other purpose, and should be kept in the church among the holy vessels.
	www.orthodoxinfo.com /ecumenism/pouring.aspx (1632 words)

	Kiev Information Guide. Ukrainian Holidays
		Kiev Day is usually celebrated at the last weekend of May. During two days various performances of popular actors and musicians are held.
		On this day people decorate their houses and apartments with greenery, which is a reminder of the new life that comes through baptism.
		A first-year child, usually a girl, is carried by a graduating student, usually a boy, and she rings a bell, thus, opening a new school year.
	www.kiev.info /about/holidays.htm (1580 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Euntes In Mundum
		Through the Church's service, which was begun in the Baptism at Kiev, this heritage reached, beyond the Urals, many peoples of northern Asia, as far as the coasts of the Pacific and even beyond.
		This was symbolically expressed by the ancient rites of holy Baptism when the newly baptized, clad in white robes, went in procession from the baptistry to the assembly of the faithful gathered in the cathedral.
		Vladimir received Baptism and together with his people opened himself to the saving power of Christ, in conformity with Peter's words in the Acts of the Apostles: "There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved" (4:12).
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=3700 (6202 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Magnum Baptismi Donum
		Baptism "constitutes a sacramental bond of unity linking all who have been reborn by means of it".
		For a long time, however, the Church in Kiev remained in contact with the neighbouring Catholic brethren and with the Apostolic See, and even when a situation of practical separation was established, there were not lacking, on both sides, sincere attempts to restore full communion.
		He was an outstanding theologian and a convinced advocate of dialogue with the Church of Rome, which, for her part, honoured him by elevating him to the dignity of cardinal and afterwards received his remains in the ancient Basilica of Saint Peter.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=3701 (2747 words)

	St. Vladimir of Kiev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kiev was on the main travel and commercial route between the Baltic Sea and Constantinople on the Black Sea.
		Prince Oleg, who had captured Kiev around 882, was a Viking, as was his descendant Vladimir; but most of the people that these Norsemen came to rule over were eastern Slavs.
		Now this sort of "command baptism" is certainly not the ideal approach, although Clovis and other medieval barbarian lords in typical masterful style followed the same practice.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id655.htm (658 words)

	BAOC history
		The baptism of Princess Rahneda of Polatsk, wife of Grand Prince Vladimir, and their son Izjaslau' along with the establishment of the episcopal See of Polatsk in 992 are just two of many indications of that growth.
		During its early development, the Orthodox Church in the Belarusian principalities was a part of the Church administration headed by the Metropolitan of Kiev.
		In response, the rulers of Lithuania gained from the Patriarch of Constantinople the appointment of the separate Metropolitan for the Orthodox Church of Lithuania, who was installed in 1316 in Novahradak.
	www.belarusguide.com /culture1/religion/BAOC.html (2663 words)

	olgabirnbaum.html
		Surprisingly and perhaps significantly, however, there is no mention in the emperor's account of the Rus' princess' baptism during her stay in Constantinople.
		Pritsak argues that Olga in fact visited Constantinople twice: in 946, when she was received by the emperor on Wednesday, 9 September, but was still a pagan, and in 957, when she saw the emperor on Sunday, 18 October, by now a newly converted Christian.
		Olga is further said to have founded the Church of the Holy Trinity in her native town of Pskov and to have had a chapel built at Askold's gravesite in Kiev.
	www.stetson.edu /~psteeves/classes/olgabirnbaum.html (961 words)

	ON THE BAPTISM OF RUS' by St. John Maximovitch
		The baptism of Kiev, and of all of Rus' thereafter, opens up a new life for the eastern Slavs, and becomes a point of departure for their glorious history.
		The Russian people, after their baptism, were no longer the same as they had been prior to it.
		Between the time of the baptism of Rus' and our own day and age, there was not a single hour, it would seem, but that there dwelt, somewhere in the Russian Land, a saint, becoming after his repose a heavenly intercessor for the Russian Land.
	saintjohnwonderworker.org /baptism.htm (3155 words)

	Breakaway churches gain ground in Ukraine
		The Ukrainian Orthodox Church Kiev Patriarchate is a breakaway group seeking official recognition as an independent, Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
		But around a bend in the Dnieper, the majestic Vydubytsky Monastery, which commemorates the mass baptism ordered by Volodymyr in 988, is in the hands of the breakaway church.
		The Moscow and Kiev churches are the two dominant ones, and they differ little in liturgical terms.
	www.suntimes.com /output/religion/cst-nws-ukraine10.html (804 words)

	Orthodox World
		Missionaries penetrated into Russia during this period and the Russian Princess Olga was converted to Christianity in 955, although the effective Christianization of Russia actually received its greatest impetus with the conversion of Olga's grandson, Vladimir, in 988.
		Grand Prince Vladimir of Kiev decided that an official religion was necessary for his country and he was unsure which to choose: the Islam of the Volga Bulgars, the Judaism of the Khazars (on the lower Volga), the Latin Christianity of the Germans, or the Orthodox faith of the Greeks.
		In 1037, Theopemptos was consecrated Metropolitan of Kiev and all but two of the Metropolitans of this period were Creeks, appointed by Constantinople.
	www.orthodoxworld.ru /english/istoria/2 (581 words)

	Art Gallery : Artwork
		Old chronicles tell us the pagan rulers of Kiev concluded that their nation was rising on the world stage and as a world power needed to change its religion to increase the spiritual and cultural level of the nation.
		Church services back home in Kiev were closely modeled upon Byzantine norms and many ikons and liturgical furnishings where brought back for Kiev's growing number of sanctuaries.
		Although the first ikons in Kiev were certainly imported, Byzantine artists were soon lured north to Kiev to work and teach their craft there.
	www.gallery-worldwide.com /cmItem.jsp?id=2107&view=AUTH (1228 words)

	Russian Church Overview
		The great cathedrals in Kiev and Novgorod already were erected and fashioned after the Hagia Sophia, the famous church in Constantinople.
		The Russian Orthodox Church originally was centered in Kiev, but shifted to Moscow after the Mongol invasions, and Moscow became the residence of the patriarch.
		Peter I, through an obsession of Western ways and ignoring the opposition of the Church, brought Russia up to date with the rest of civilization, revising the alphabet, opening vocational schools, schools in math, navigation, engineering, medicine and establishing a Russian naval academy.
	www2.sptimes.com /Treasures/TC.5.4.7.html (1288 words)

	kiev
		Izyaslav I, Prince of Kiev, 1054 - 1078, deposed 1068 - 1069 and 1073 - 1076.
		Ellisif (or Elizabeth) of Kiev, married first in 1045 to Harald III Hardrada, King of Norway, who was slain on September 25, 1066 at the Battle of Stamford Bridge.
		Dobronega (or Maria) of Kiev, married 1038 to Casimir I, King of Poland.
	www3.sympatico.ca /robert.sewell/kiev.html (1139 words)

	Russian Orthodox Church -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the 1686, the (additional info and facts about Metropolia of Kiev) Metropolia of Kiev was transferred from Constantinople to Moscow bringing millions more faithful and a half dozen dioceses under the general control of the Russian Orthodox Patriarch.
		In 1987 in Russian Federation between 40% and 50% of newborn babies (depending on the region) were baptized and over 60% of all deceased received Christian funeral services.
		It appears now that the government had realized fruitlessness of its efforts in war against religion and, instead of that, tried to use religion to gain support of people.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ru/russian_orthodox_church.htm (2391 words)

	The Orthodox Faith
		Anthony of the Kiev Caves, Founder of Monasticism in Russia 1073.
		Onesimus, recluse of the Kiev Caves (13th cen.).
		Moses the Hungarian, of the Kiev Caves (1043).
	www.orthodoxfaith.com /calendar_july.html (1134 words)

	The Fathers of Russian Monasticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At the time of the Baptism of Rus' in 988, there lived in the town of Liubech a young boy by the name of Antip.
		Arriving in Kiev, Anthony made the rounds of the various Greek monasteries there, but finding none of them to his liking --for he was accustomed to the more austere, Athonite tradition--he discovered a small cave not far from the city and there resumed his life of solitary struggle.
		Preserved in the Kiev Caves Patericon, it was written by the chronicler Nestor about ten years after the Saint’s repose in 1074, and is based on accounts of contemporaries; the description of his youth comes from the Saint’s own mother.
	www.roca.org /OA/78/78g.htm (3026 words)

	kiev law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The city of Kiev was on the present site of the residence of Gordyata and Nicephorus, and the prince's palace was in the city where the residence of Vratislav and Chudin now stands, while the hunting grounds were outside the city.
		After her baptism, the Emperor summoned Olga and made known to her that he wished her to become his wife.
		If a priest baptizes children in the district of another 'priest, except in need or because of illness, the one who performed the baptism outside of his district is responsible to the metropolitan.
	history.colstate.edu /pate/kiev.html (7908 words)

	Great Prince Vladimir Equal-to-the-Apostles and baptism of Russians
		Returning to Kiev together with Korsun and Greek priests, Vladimir suggested to his twelve sons to become Christians and they were baptized in one of the Kiev streams called Kreshchatic.
		Like in Kiev, they overthrew the statue of Perun, dragged it on the ground and cast it into the Volkhov River.
		In the beginning the Christian faith was initially adopted in territories adjacent to Kiev and along the waterway from Kiev to Novgorod, wherefrom it was spread along the Volga artery.
	www.fatheralexander.org /booklets/english/saints/vladimir_prince.htm (1930 words)

	HISTORY OF THE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN DYNASTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was followed by a son Oleg (d 912), who secured his rule over Kiev, and was succ by his brother Igor (d 945), succ by his son Sviatoslav (d 972), from whose yr son Yaropolk (d 980), descends the Princes Sviatpolk-Mirsky and Sviatpolk-Tchevertinsky.
		Saint Wladimir established complex system of succession by which each brother was succeeded as Grand Prince of Kiev by the next, then the eldest nephew whose father had been Grand Prince before him, with cadets ruling smaller principalities.
		Astrakhan, Siberia and Novgorod and on the sinister wing with the arms of the Grand Duchies of Kiev, Taurica and Finland and the Kingdom of Poland.
	www.chivalricorders.org /royalty/gotha/russhist.htm (1046 words)

	Russian Orthodox Church
		The Russian Orthodox Church traces its roots to the Baptism of Kiev in 988, when Prince Vladimir I officially adopted the religion of Byzantium as the state religion of the Rus' state.
		The Metropolitan moved from the Rus' capital of Kiev to Suzdal, then to Vladimir, then to Moscow in 1326 following Kiev's devastation by the Mongols.
		In the 1686, the Metropolia of Kiev was transferred from Constantinople to Moscow bringing millions more faithful and a half dozen dioceses under the general control of the Russian Orthodox Patriarch.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/r/ru/russian_orthodox_church.html (1296 words)

	UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The largest was Moscow, the Soviet and Russian capital, with an estimated 1991 population of 8.8 million.
		Kiev, the first East Slavic state, was ruled by the pagan Prince Svyatoslav until his death in 972.
		The next ruler, his son Vladimir, ordered the people of Kiev to receive baptism in the Orthodox Christian rite in 988.
	history-world.org /union_of_soviet_socialist_republ.htm (15563 words)

	The Kiev Caves Lavra: Then and Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Even with the transfer of the capital first to Moscow and then to Petersburg, the significance of the Caves Lavra was only briefly eclipsed during the course of its long history, until it was forcibly closed by the Soviets in 1924.
		In the decades that followed, the atheist authorities fostered a deliberate lack of respect towards the Russian national heritage and tried--sometimes with the help of guns and bulldozers--to suppress manifestations of its strong Orthodox identity: priceless national treasures of art and architecture were destroyed or left to deteriorate.
		The Florovsky convent in Kiev and the Pochaev Lavra are cases in point.
	www.roca.org /OA/78/78h.htm (1908 words)

	Prince Vladimir Of Kiev - Mr Kiev
		of the three sons of Sviatoslav of Kiev, was born in 956 and was made Prince of Novgorod in...
		Grand Prince Vladimir Wladymirovitch I of Kiev Princess Rogneida [Rogneide] of Polotsk bd.
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	www.dimatteo-insurance.com /prince-vladimir-of-kiev.html (349 words)

	Pope John Paul II 6 July 1996 Moleben (Prayer Service)
		In 1988 we solemnly celebrated, here in Rome, the millennium of the Baptism; it was the occasion of a great Te Deum for your country, as it was for the Polish nation in 1966, the millennium of its Baptism.
		As we commemorate that Baptism, we cannot but think of the two holy brothers of Thessalonica, Sts Cyril and Methodius, apostles of the Slavs, in whose language they proclaimed the Gospel.
		That Baptism was not only the beginning of the Church in your lands, but indeed the beginning of your nation's history.
	www.motherofgodchurch.org /mog/documents/jp2-UNION_OF_BREST_WAS_WORK_OF_HOLY_SPIRIT.HTM (1218 words)

	Baptism of Rus
		In 988, Kiev was the chief city of a loosely united federation of tribes and urban trading centers which bore the name Rus.
		Vladimir claimed to be a descendant of the Viking princes who had asserted political control in the late 800s over the native Slavic inhabitants of the land of Kievan Rus, a geographical area roughly equivalent to the present-day regions of Ukraine, Belorussia, and northwestern Russia.
		After Vladimir became prince of Kiev in 978, he tried to impose a uniform religious system upon the people of Rus, with gods modeled after those worshipped by the Vikings.
	www.stetson.edu /~psteeves/classes/baptismofrus.html (1954 words)

	Icons, Windows into Heaven - Early Russian Icons
		The Russian national state shares its roots with Ukraine in the capital city of ancient Russ, Kiev, situated on the Dnieper River.
		The Russians were dumfounded by the richness and sublime beauty of the service, the church and the celestial singing of the Byzantine choirs in the lofty, domed cathedral.
		Although the first icons in Kiev were certainly imported, Byzantine artists were soon lured north to Kiev to work and teach their craft there.
	www.pallasweb.com /ikons/3russia.html (1206 words)

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