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  Harvard University Press: Documentary Sources for the History of the Rus' Metropolitanate by Andrei Pliguzov
Epistle by Metropolitan Kiprian to the Pskov clergy
Epistle by Metropolitan Fotii to Archbishop Ioann [I] of Novgorod, the clergy, and to laymen of Novgorod
Epistle by Metropolitan Fotii to the clergy of Pskov
www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/PLIDOC.html?show=contents   (5615 words)

  
 Halych metropoly
Halych) had been the see of Halych eparchy, for which a cathedral was built in 1157.
Antonii) to Patriarch Philotheos for consecration as metropolitan of a renewed and autonomous
metropolitan was accorded the same rights as the metropolitan of Kyiv as outlined in the 1596 bull of Pope Clement VIII, Decet Romanum Pontificem.
www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/H/A/Halychmetropoly.htm   (499 words)

  
 Kyivan Rus’
Rus’ ruler to convert to Christianity and to establish direct ties with central and western-European rulers.
Rus’ and became involved in the internecine wars, serving as allies of one branch of the dynasty or another.
Kyiv was thoroughly sacked in 1240 and reduced to a shadow of its former self.
www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/K/Y/KyivanRushDA.htm   (1880 words)

  
 Ukrainian Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia - The Head of the UGCC will visit Halych
The Metropolitanate of Halych was revoked for the first time in 1347 at the insistence of Moscow.
In 1401, the Halych Metropolitanate was abolished and resubordinated to the Metropolitanate of Kyiv.
The Metropolitanate of Halych was temporary: in the XIX-XX centuries, when the Metropolitan of Kyiv could not operate in Kyiv (due to Russian repression of the Uniate Metropolitanate on Russia's newly acquired territories in Ukraine -ed.
www.ukrarcheparchy.us /index.php?categoryid=19&p2_articleid=150   (534 words)

  
 Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The identity and further separate development of the Kievan Church was achieved by the election of Metropolitans, native and/or not confirmed by the Patriarch of Constantinople (Ilarion, 1051-1054; Klym Smolyatich 1147-1154; and, Hryhoriy Tsamblak 1415-1419).
Meanwhile, for the Ukrainian Catholic Church of Kiev, the loss of the Metropolitan of Kiev in 1299 was rapidly supplanted by the creation of the Metropolia of Halych for Southern Rus in 1303.
In 1352, the Metropolitan of Halych for Ukraine began to relocate back to Kiev; thereafter, the Kievan Church was headed by the Metropolitan of Kiev-Halych and All Rus.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ukrainian_Greek_Catholic_Church   (1788 words)

  
 kiev - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Kiev (Київ, Kyiv, in Ukrainian; Киев, Kiev, in Russian) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper river.
Historically, Kiev is one of the most ancient (probably 1550 years old) and important cities of the region, the center of Rus civilization, survivor of numerous wars, purges and genocides.
In 1632, Peter Mogila the Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia established the Kiev Mogila Academy, an educational institution aimed to preserve and develop Ukrainian culture and Orthodox faith despite Polish Catholic oppression.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/kiev   (2741 words)

  
 Ukraine Trip - ukrainetrip.com
This was Kyivan-Rus', which included the cities of Kyiv, Novgorod, Chernihiv, Halych, Polotsk, Smolensk, Rostov, Suzdal and later Moscow, which was founded by the Kyivites -- a huge expanse of territory from the Baltic to the Black Sea and the Kuban River, and from Transcarpathia to the Volga.
In the 11th century, two monks settled in the hills to the south of the city of Kyiv, and eventually a cave monastery was established in the area.
The refined skills of Kyiv's medieval craftsmen has been repeatedly demonstrated by the vast number of buried treasures found within the territory of the ancient city, and by its many architectural monuments which still grace its skyline: St. Sofia Cathedral, the Golden Gate of Kyiv, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, and many others.
www.ukrainetrip.com /about_ukraine_history.shtml   (601 words)

  
 Kiev - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Kiev (Ukrainian: Київ, Kyiv; Russian: Киев, Kiev), also Kyiv, is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper river.
Historically, Kiev is one of the most ancient and important cities of the region, the center of Rus' civilization, survivor of numerous wars, purges and genocides.
Many historical and architectural landmarks are preserved or reconstructed in the city, which is thought to have existed as early as the 5th century A.D. With the exact time of city foundation being hard to determine, May 1982 was chosen to celebrate the city's 1,500th anniversary.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Kiev   (3282 words)

  
 Ukrainian Language @ Confines.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The era of Rus' is the subject of some linguistic controversy, as the language of much of the literature was purely or heavily Old Slavonic.
One vehicle of this divergence (or widening divergence) was the large scale appropriation of the Old Slavonic language in the northern reaches of Rus' and of the Polish language at the territory of modern Ukraine.
As evidenced by the contemporary chronicles, the ruling princes of Halych and Kiev called themselves "Russkie," which contrasts sharply with the lack of ethnic self-appellation for the area until the mid-nineteenth century.
www.confines.net /encyclopedia/Ukrainian_language   (6970 words)

  
 Wikipedia: L'viv
L'viv displaced Halych as the chief city of the area.
According to Nestor's chronicle in 981 this area was conquered by Volodymyr the Great, ruler of Kievan Rus'.
Early in the 19th century, the city became the new seat of the primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Archbishop-Major of Kyiv-Halych and Rus', the Metropolitan of L'viv.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/l/l_/l_viv.html   (961 words)

  
 History of Kiev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gradually acquiring the eminence as the center of the East Slavic civilization, Kiev reached its Golden Age as the center Kievan Rus' in the tenth–twelfth centuries.
From Oleg's seizure of the city until 1169 Kiev was the capital of the principal East-Slavic state, known as Kievan Rus' (or Kyivan Rus') which was ruled by initially Varangian Rurikid dynasty which was gradually Slavisized.
Kiev reached the height of its position of political and cultural Golden Age in the middle of the 11th century under Vladimir's son Yaroslav the Wise.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Kiev   (2569 words)

  
 ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Kyiv was in ruins, and unprotected from Mongol attack.
The Orthodox schism was renewed in Kyiv in 1620 when the Patriarch of Jerusalem consecrated a new Orthodox Metropolitan for the city.
Firstly, he asked the Patriarch of Constantinople to transfer the Metropolitanate of Kyiv to the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Moscow (established 1589).
stjosephs1.homestead.com /ukraine.html   (3562 words)

  
 History of Galicia
The thing was that Halych was rich in "hals" - salt and from there salt being mined was exported to many faraway lands.
Boyaryn Dmytro Dedko -- "steward of the Rus' lands"; Liubart -- prince of Volyn.
Polish and Ukrainian forces captured Kyiv on May 6, but Bolsheviks mounted a counteroffensive and progressed as far as the outskirts of Warsaw (Russians were stopped at severe Warsaw battle of 1920) before being driven back to the Right Bank Ukraine.
www.torugg.org /History/history_of_galicia.html   (2708 words)

  
 Ukrainian Catholic leader's move to Kyiv protested by Orthodox (08/21/05)
KYIV - Radical Orthodox Christians are threatening conflict when Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, primate of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, arrives in Kyiv this weekend to officially transfer the residence of the Church's major archbishop from Lviv to Ukraine's capital.
Metropolitan Volodymyr, who heads the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate, has called on Pope Benedict XVI not to transfer the residence of the head of the UGCC from Lviv to Kyiv, ITAR-TASS reported on August 17.
Therefore, the move of the head of the UGCC to Kyiv is not a demonstration of aggression but a vital necessity," Father Yatsiv said.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2005/340503.shtml   (1017 words)

  
 Manic Net Preacher: Ukraine
Northern-Central Ukraine was once the centre of Rus' - Kyiv was the capital of the main Rus' principality.
With the exception of Kyiv, this is a mostly agrarian region.
The conquest of Halych or preceding areas was attempted by the first crowned Hungarian king (Stephen I, early 11th century), by two kings at the turn of the 11th and 12th centuries, and later in the 12th century by king Bela The Blind (=Bela III).
manicnetpreacher.blogspot.com /2004/11/ukraine.html   (1728 words)

  
 Bohdan Khmelnytsky — Lviv Ukraine tourist guide
Among the Orthodox nobility and higher clergy the conception that two sovereigns—the Kyiv metropolitan and the hetman of the Zaporozhian Host—would enter into relations with Poland was quite popular.
But Khmelnytsky's military victories in 1648–9 and his triumphal entry into Kyiv in 1648, at which he was hailed as ‘the Moses, savior, redeemer, and liberator of the Rus’ people from Polish captivity...
Metropolitan Sylvestr Kosiv referred to him in 1654 as ‘the leader and commander of our land.’ Khmelnytsky referred to himself as ‘the master of the entire Rus’ land’ (1655) and as ‘Clementiae divinae Generalis Dux Exercituum Zaporoviensium’ (letter to C. Serban, the ruler of Wallachia, 1657).
lviv.biz /en/people/bohdan-khmelnytsky   (2166 words)

  
 Who's Who Among Eastern Orthodox
Representatives from Rus' took part in the Western councils in Lyon (1245) and Constance (1418) and the Union of Florence (1439) was positively received in Ukrainian and Belarusian lands.
Formerly the Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassiy, Sabodan is still governing the affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate, with the title of Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine.
After Dymytriy’s death in February 2000 and in accord with his testament, the name of Metropolitan Kostyantyn, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA, which is in the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, is to be commemorated in the churches of the UAOC.
www.exorthodoxforchrist.com /who's_who_among_eastern__orthodox.htm   (6256 words)

  
 Religious - Christian - Belarus and Ukraine
Filaret, Metropolitan of Minsk and Sluzk, Exarch of Patriarch [Aleksy II of the Russian Orthodox Church] for all Byelorussia.
Kyiv Patriarchate confirms desire to create United Orthodox Church in Ukraine.
Kyiv Patriarch Warns Against Liquidation of Independent Orthodox Church.
learning.lib.vt.edu /slav/relig_chr_bela_ukr.html   (1898 words)

  
 RISU /English /Major Religions /Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate /Patriarch of Kyiv and all Rus-Ukraine Filaret:
Yaakov Dov Bleich, Chief Rabbi of Kyiv and all Ukraine
In 1966 he was named archbishop and later metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych; he was the first ethnic Ukrainian in the post of Metropolitan of Kyiv for 150 years.
In 1990 after the death of Pimen, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus, Filaret became the administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate.
www.risu.org.ua /eng/major.religions/orthodox.kp/filaret   (814 words)

  
 Arts Gallery
To better understand the significance of the Boichuk school, it should be noted that three periods of great style (i.e., those embracing all walks of life at a certain social stage, being the epoch's quintessence) are recorded in the history of Ukrainian culture.
The first dates from Kyiv Rus': religious architecture and sacral art borrowed from Byzantium and then creatively revised, based on the autochthonous tradition, incorporated in the Slavic categories of time and space.
Owing to Metropolitan Sheptytsky's intercession, he was commissioned by the Russian Archaeological Society to restore an eighteenth century church in Lemeshi, a village in today's Chernihiv oblast, then part of Count Rozumovsky's estate.
www.artukraine.com /paintings/boichuk.htm   (1346 words)

  
 DATELINE NEW YORK: An exciting season (07/20/97)
Close to half a million visitors who viewed "The Glory of Byzantium" exhibit during its four-month run at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York inspected the art of the Middle Byzantine Empire (843 to 1261) and were introduced to the grandeur and the glory of Kyivan Rus'.
A Metropolitan Museum spokeswoman, who gave the exact number of visitors as 460,800, said museum officials were "very pleased" with the attendance figures.
Mounted in a gallery to evoke the serene and stately interior of a church were four huge mosaics of gold and glass tesseras from St. Michael's of the Golden Domes Monastery in Kyiv and a portion of the mosaic floor from the Desiatynna Church in Kyiv, the earliest recorded masonry church in medieval Rus'.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1997/299715.shtml   (796 words)

  
 President Putin awards the primate of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Metropolitan Vladimir's patriotism is in consolidation of Russia and Ukraine.
The move (some hundred years after the initial Mongol onslaught) of the metropolitan from Kyiv to Vladimir to Moscow is what substantiates the Russian claim to all of the former Rus'.
In 1373 a Serbian monk Cyprian became ordained as "the metropolitan of Kyiv" and moved to Moscow in 1389.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1528057/posts   (5827 words)

  
 The History of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine: First dioceses on the territory of Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Pope Gregory XI finally established a Latin rite metropolitanate and archdiocese in Halychyna on the 13th of February 1375 by the Bull 'Debitum pastoralis offici'.
The first Metropolitan of Halych was Archbishop Matthew (Matheus) (1375 - +1380) a German who apparently could speak Ruthenian (the common Ukrainian and Belarusian parent - language of the time).
By the beginning of the 15th century the Latin rite metropolitanate in Ukraine was fully establish.
www.rkc.lviv.ua /Cx1I.php3?L=e&I=d   (940 words)

  
 NÖK
The move of the UGCC to Kyiv is not simply the moving of the patriarch's residence.
Concelebrating with His Holiness were Metropolitans Yuvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna and Clement of Kaluga and Borovsk, Archbishops Arseny of Istra and Alexy of Orekhovo-Zuevo, Bishop Savva of Krasnogorsk, Alexander of Dmitrov, Veniamin of Lubertsy and Mark of Yegorievsk.
Metropolitan Yuvenaly accompanied by the monks from Mount Athos, Moscow clergymen and the Kremlin guards of honour carried the shrines with the holy relics to the doors of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, where they were met by His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia and the concelebrating hierarchs.
www.kirchen-in-osteuropa.de /archiv/05082502.htm   (7411 words)

  
 Ukrainian Catholic Patriarch Dies in L'viv
Funeral arrangements were pending the appointment of a patriarchal administrator (normally the senior Metropolitan); travel difficulties and the impending Christmas holy days may cause some delay.
Father Lubachivsky moved to the United States in 1947, where he was secretary to the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia, Metropolitan Constantine Bohachevsky and secretary of the Ukrainian section of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the precursor of the U.S. Catholic Conference.
Hundreds of thousands of faithful lined the streets from the airport to Saint George Cathedral, and cheered with joy as the Metropolitan presented the Patriarch with the white klobuk (the patriarchal head-dress), urging Patriarch Myroslav-Ivan to lead the Church in this new era.
www.uaoc.org /lubachivsky.html   (1411 words)

  
 Princely Enlighteners and Defenders of the Church
The Princes, Blessed Mykola Askold and Dir were locally venerated in Kyiv and St. Olha the Great built Churches over their graves as a way of confirming their holiness as martyrs.
Other early Saints of Kyiv include St Theodore and his son St. John who would not worship idols and were martyred for Christ as a result.
Volodymyr is the Enlightener of Rus-Ukraine and among the Saints who came to Crimea to baptise the people of Rus’ included St. Joachim of Korsun and St. Michael the first Metropolitan of Kyiv.
www.unicorne.org /orthodoxy/articles/saints_icons/saints_new/enlighteners.htm   (1284 words)

  
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Rus', Kyivan Rus' are not the sameas "Russia" nor were ever Russia's ancestors.If I find time, I will later quote Encyclopedia Britannica, 1962 edition,which has some interesting things to say about Novgorod, which aparticipant here assumed was always Russian, and the Muscovite dukes.
Frank B. Korchmaryk, Ph.D. E-text (electronic text) transcriber's note: translated from theUkrainian, the terms "Kyiv" and "Kyivan" are used in lieu of therussified terms "Kiev" and "Kievan".
It must be underscored here that until the complete collapse of theKyivan state, aside the extension of the name Ruce over theterritories of the Galician-Volhinian state, not even one instance hasbeen known which could have indicated that the term ever referred to anyother lands but the central regions of contemporary Ukraine.
www.pbs.org /netforum/static/faceofrussia/23.html   (3939 words)

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