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	Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The metropolitan's success is held to have prevented a Tatar raid on Moscow.
		In 1340, Alexius was appointed Metropolitan's deputy in Vladimir and 12 years later would become the Bishop of Vladimir.
		After visiting Constantinople, he was chosen to become the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Russia in 1354.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexius,_Metropolitan_of_Moscow (296 words)

	Russian Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Church was originally a Metropolitanate of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Byzantine patriarch appointed the metropolitan who governed the Church of Rus'.
		As Kiev was losing its political significance due to the Mongol invasion, Metropolitan Maximus moved to Vladimir in 1299; his successors, Metropolitan Peter and Theognostus, moved the residence to Moscow by 1326.
		Metropolitan Jonas, installed by the Council of Russian bishops in 1448, was given the title of Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus'.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church (3091 words)

	Guardian \| Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
		Metropolitan Anthony was head of the Diocese of Sourozh - and had recently been nominated Metropolitan of the newly proposed Metropolia for Western Europe, to unite the parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russian territory.
		This act of barbarity was made worse for the metropolitan by the fact that Solzhenitsyn was a member of the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Moscow patriarchate did not defend him.
		Metropolitan Anthony's short, but influential, spiritual works were published together in The Essence Of Prayer (1986), and, with his sermons, are now freely available in Russia, maintaining his reputation there.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4727276-103610,00.html (1206 words)

	St. Alexis of Moscow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Metropolitan Theognost, a Greek by birth, understood the need of a Russian helper in the administration of Metropolitan affairs, and his choice fell on Alexis.
		During the demise in health of Metropolitan Theognost, he was elevated in 1353 to the cathedra of the Bishop Vladimir.
		Besides which Metropolitan Alexis used the help and cooperation of his contemporary, the great God-pleaser, the Venerable Sergios, abbot of Radonezh, who, at the instruction of the Holy One, went to Nizhny Novgorod and Piazan in order to pacify the resident mutinous dukes.
	www.fatheralexander.org /booklets/english/saints/alexis_moscow.htm (448 words)

	In the Balance.Patriarch Alexis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The new patriarch was born in 1929 in Estonia, the son of a future priest of German descent.
		Alexis was first among the hierarchs to publicly declare himself in favor of perestroika and Gorbachev's reforms.
		Patriarch Alexis is regarded as a good administrator, and was one of the first to initiate publication of a diocesan newspaper.
	www.roca.org /oa/100/100f.htm (776 words)

	Metropolitan Antony of Kiev and Galicia (1863-1936)
		It was Metropolitan Antony who fought for the return to the theology of the Church Fathers, for restoration of the canonical order of the Patriarchate of the Russian Church and for the establishment in unity and freedom of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
		The future Metropolitan Antony of Kiev and Galicia was born on 17 March 1863 in the village of Vatagino near Novgorod.
		Metropolitan Eulogius, refusing to return to the canonical exile Church, sought refuge under the modernistic Patriarchate of Constantinople, altogether leaving the Russian Church.
	www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk /metantny.htm (6662 words)

	Pravda.RU:12th anniversary of the enthronement of Alexis II
		12th anniversary of the enthronement of Alexis II 12th anniversary of the enthronement of Alexis II Yesterday, Russian Orthodox Church launched celebrations devoted to the 12th anniversary of the enthronement of the Patriarch of Moscow and All-Russia, Alexis II.
		Besides Alexis II (who was metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod at that time), there were seven other members of the Sacred Synod who sought to this post.
		Alexis II is also an honorary member of many spiritual and secular academies and honorary professor of some universities.
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2002/06/11/30142_.html (489 words)

	Essay by Boris Talantov on the Moscow Patriarchate
		The Appeal of Metropolitan Sergius to the believing citizens of the USSR on June 22, 1941, was received by true believers as a new cringing before the despotic regime and a new betrayal of the Church's interests.
		Metropolitan Sergius again revealed himself to be an obedient tool of the atheist regime, which at that moment wished to use for its own ends the religious feelings of its citizens with the fewest possible concessions from atheism.
		By decree of the Patriarch and the Holy Synod of April 4, 1967, the Rector of the Odessa Theological Seminary, Archimandrite Theodosius, was raised to the rank of bishop.
	www.apostle1.com /cat_tal1.htm (7743 words)

	Alexis, Bishop And Hieromartyr Of Voronezh And Those With Him
		As a result of this, Bishop Alexis formally became the adminstrator of all the Josephite parishes in the south of Russia, fulfilling the duties of the exarch of the Ukraine.
		Alexis Alexandrovich Ryltsevich was born in 1879 in Grodno.
		In 1937 Bishop Alexis was transferred to a prison regime, on October 9 he was condemned to be shot by a tribunal of the UNKVD of the Leningrad military district, and was shot in the region of Medvezhegorsk on November 3, 1937 (new style).
	www.orthodox.net /russiannm/alexis-bishop-and-hieromartyr-of-voronezh-and-those-with-him.html (12609 words)

	The History
		Another metropolitan, Leontius, a Greek by birth, sent by the same patriarch Nicholas, consecrated the new temple, to the great satisfaction of Vladimir, who made a vow to endow it with the tenth part of all his revenues; and from hence it was called The Cathedral of the Tithes.
		John, the third metropolitan (1015), who had been sent from Constantinople upon the death of Leontius, buried the prince in the Church of the Tithes, which he had built, near the tomb of the Grecian princess his wife, and the uncorrupted relics of St. Olga were translated to the same spot.
		The new metropolitan, Matthew, was a witness of this calamity.
	www.holytrinitymission.org /books/english/history_russian_church_mouravieff.htm (11767 words)

	Metropolitan of Sourozh Anthony took his last "journey of all the earth"
		With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexis it was celebrated by Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk Filaret, patriarchal exarch of all Belarus.
		Metropolitan Anthony was buried at the Brompton Cemetery in the southeast of the British capital.
		After the service Metropolitan Filaret had a talk with the clergy of the Sourozh Diocese, during which he passed the primatial blessing of Patriarch Alexis to the participants of the meeting and expression of the Patriarch's deep sorrow for the bereavement of the Diocese of Sourozh and the whole Russian Orthodox Church.
	www.pravoslavie.ru /english/news030813.htm (508 words)

	Autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America - HistoryofOurChurch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		By 1448, Moscow metropolitans bear the title “Metropolitan of Moscow.” The Kyivan Metropolitans continue to be accorded the title “Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus’.
		Metropolitan Andrij Pratsky is elected as the canonical successor to Metropolitan Hrihorij Ohijchuk in the diaspora.
		The rest of Metropolitan Filaret's bishops called a Sobor in Kharkiv and elected Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan) of Novgorod, Russia, to be the new primate of Moscow's Church in Ukraine.
	www.uaocmoisey.org /HistoryStatutes/HistoryofOurChurch.dsp (2322 words)

	History of Russian Orthodox Church
		In the pre-Tartar period of its history The Russian Church was one of the metropolitanates of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
		The metropolitan at the head of the Church was appointed by the Patriarchate of Constantinople from among the Greeks, but in 1051 Russian-born Metropolitan Illarion, one of the most educated men of his time, was installed to the primatial see.
		Metropolitan Jonas, installed by the Council of Russian bishops in 1448, was given the title of Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia.
	russian-crafts.com /customs/russian-church-history.html (1624 words)

	The Prologue of Ohrid: February 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alexis was a great hierarch of the Russian Church at the time of the burdensome bondage of the Russian people under the Tartars.
		She was blind for three years but her sight was restored when Alexis prayed over her and anointed her with holy water.
		Following a very laborious and fruitful life, Alexis died in the year 1378 A.D. in his eighty-fifth year and took up habitation in the courts of the Lord.
	cs-people.bu.edu /butta1/prologue/February12.htm (1317 words)

	St Alexis of Ugine (1867-1934)
		Fr Alexis was loved by the 1500 peasant-parishioners in his church, built in 1840 and dedicated to the Dormition, and also by the children in the local schools and in the orphanage.
		The trace of these events remained on Fr Alexis' face for the rest of his life; he lost the use of a facial nerve and his right eye was always open wider than his left.
		Fr Alexis was buried in the first available grave space, but then the new rector bought a concession for thirty years in another part of the cemetery with money he had collected from parishioners.
	www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk /alexisu.htm (3204 words)

	Copy of the Report to Metropolitan Anastassy
		Communications were lost with Metropolitan Peter (Polyansky), the lawful head of the Russian Church, who was in prison, and the treachery of his Deputy forced the Church, both in the Homeland and abroad, to be ruled in its canonical existence by Ukaz no. 362 of the holy Patriarch Tikhon concerning the self-definition of dioceses.
		Metropolitan Nicodemus begins his exposition of his ecumenist faith with an Orthodox thesis on the unity of the whole human race in Adam: "Mankind, the whole Adam (in the expression of St. Macarius the Great) is united by means of the Incarnation, Cross and Resurrection of the last Adam (I Cor.
		After Metropolitan Alexis was "elected" patriarch of the MP at the dawn of perestroika at the Local Council of 1990, his ecumenist convictions did not change at all.
	private.peterlink.ru /alektor/v20-22.htm (16985 words)

	Clergymen and laymen have congratulated Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexis II on the 75th birth anniversary and ...
		About 300 clergymen, including 80 archpriests of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan of All America and Canada Herman, Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland Leo, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine Vladimir and representatives of local Orthodox Churches all over the world took part in the long service.
		Metropolitan Vladimir handed Alexis II the icon of Moscow Saints.
		The Holy Synod decorated the Patriarch with two panhagias (badges), a cross and order of St. Alexis of Moscow of the 1st class, which was just established by the Russian Orthodox Church.
	www.russiannewsroom.com /send.aspx?id=949 (401 words)

	Russian Orthodox Church in Australia - For the Christians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I never heard anything about a "secret KGB directive" that had been sent about the dioceses to vote for Metropolitan Alexis; if there had been such a thing, believe me, there would have been people at the council who would have published it.
		Whether they actually were used to harm the church and people the commission was unable to determine inasmuch as it was hampered by anonymous sources including the once notorious "lists of agents with code names" and it did not receive a single reliable document.
		However, even the former metropolitan's violation of his vow was not by any means the decisive factor in the development of the schismatic movement in Ukraine.
	www.orthodoxy.org.au /eng/index.php?p=15 (2211 words)

	Calendrier juin 2001
		Alexis, Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Rus' (1431).
		Constantine, Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Rus' (1159).
		Uncovering of the Relies of the holy hieromartyr Volodymyr, Metropolitan of Kyiv and Galicia (1992).
	www.unicorne.org /ORTHODOXY/calendrier/juin.htm (492 words)

	DIONISII
		From left to right: The Metropolitan Alexis, with Scenes from His Life (1480s), The Virgin Hodegetria (1482), The Virgin Hodegetria (1502-1503), The Metropolitan Peter, with Scenes from His Life (1480s).
		He was first mentioned as a member of the team working on the paintings in the Cathedral of the Nativity in the Pafnutyev Monastery.
		Among the most important works attributed to Dionisii were The Crucifixion, The Metropolitan Alexis, with Scenes from His Life, The Metropolitan Peter, with Scenes from His Life, and two icons of The Virgin Hodegetria.
	www.rollins.edu /Foreign_Lang/Russian/dionisii.html (320 words)

	988-1988 An Historical Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Breach between Tsar Alexis and Patriarch Nikon (1658) leads to waning authority of the Church in affairs of State.
		Metropolitan Arsenius of Rostov deposed (1763) due to his forceful opposition to secularization of Church property
		Declaration of Metropolitan Sergius (1927) pledges the Churches loyalty to the atheist State and motivates the separate formation of a Catacomb or "True Orthodox Church" loyal to the legacy of Patriarch Tikhon
	www.roca.org /oa/history.htm (1229 words)

	The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe Message Board/Discussion :: View topic - Met Herman on Orthodoxy, ROCOR, etc.
		Metropolitan Nikodim of Moscow and Metropolitan Ireney of the Metropolia were the signatories.
		The names of Metropolitans Peter, Cyrill, Arsenius, Joseph, Archbishop Seraphim of Uglich and many other hierarchs, clerics and laymen will go down in the history of the Church on an equal par with the famous confessors of Orthodoxy in the face of persecutions, villainy and heresies.
		In 1945, after the death of Patriarch Sergius, Metropolitan Alexis of Leningrad gathered a Council, to which representatives of the clergy and laity, picked without elections and prepared for the election of a Patriarch, and, submissively following the directions of the atheistic authorities, unanimously elected as Patriarch Alexis of Leningrad.
	www.euphrosynoscafe.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=3432&highlight=herman (2314 words)

	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Benedict VII gave a church dedicated to St. Boniface to a group of exiled Eastern Christians under the leadership of Metropolitan Sergius of Damascus.
		Boniface and Alexis and placed relics of the Man of God in the church.
		Eastern legends say that Alexis was the son of a Roman senator.
	www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/alexis.html (265 words)

	Holy Trinity Seminary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The book presentation, which preceded the final round of talks between His Holiness, Patriarch Alexis and His Eminence, Metropolitan Laurus, was a unique and historic occasion, inasmuch as both First Hierarchs had contributed forewords to the volume.
		In attendance at the book presentation were Patriarch Alexis, Metropolitan Laurus, representatives from the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, as well as guests who had contributed to the production of the album.
		Patriarch Alexis and Metropolitan Laurus personally presented a copy of the album to President Vladimir Putin during a meeting the President the same day.
	www.hts.edu /pages/news/bookpres.html (341 words)

	No 41 (May 17, 2004) - Europaica Bulletin » - OrthodoxEurope.org
		Metropolitan Laurus of Eastern America and New York Diocese, Chairman of the Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, arrived in Moscow on May 14, 2004.
		Metropolitan Laurus is accompanied by Archbishop Kirill of San Francisco and Western American Diocese and members of the official delegation as well as a group of clergy of the Church Outside of Russia from the USA, Australia and Germany.
		At their meeting, which was held in a warm atmosphere of mutual understanding, the Patriarch and the Metropolitan were joined by Metropolitan Clement of Kaluga and Borovsk, Chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archbishop Innocent and Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco and Western American Diocese of the Russian Church Outside of Russia.
	orthodoxeurope.org /print/14/41.aspx (11863 words)

	Meeting of the Holy Synod of Antioch 5-7 October 1999
		After the opening prayers and the asking of the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the Fathers said a prayer for the Thrice Blessed Metropolitan Alexis of Homs.
		This Archdiocese became vacant upon the falling asleep in the Lord of the Thrice Blessed Metropolitan Alexis (Abed El-Karim).
		His Eminence Metropolitan Philip gave a presentation on the activities of the Archdiocese of North America, especially about the areas of missions, pastoral life, and publications.
	www.balamand.edu.lb /theology/holysynodnewsEng.htm (525 words)

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