Roman (Metropolitan of Lithuania)

Metropolitan Roman - Metropolitan of Lithuania ( 1355 - 1362 ).

According to the testimony of Rogozhsky, the chronicler , ^{[1] who} combined the fragments of the history of Roman and the previous Metropolitan Theodoret , the son of the Tver boyar monk Roman from Lithuania in 1352 went to Constantinople , but Patriarch Tyrnovsky made it to the metropolitan. The novel was not adopted by the people of Kiev and in 1354 was in Constantinople, where both he and the Moscow candidate, Bishop Vladimir of Alexis , received approval from the patriarch as Metropolitan of Russia. John Meyendorf convincingly showed that Patriarch Kallistos , who replaced Philotheus at the turn of 1354-1355, made the Roman initiation. Roman's connection with Bulgaria testifies to the likelihood of the supply of Roman by the Patriarch of Tarnovo, soon approved by Calliste. On August 17, 1355, Metropolitan Roman put his signatures ( Greek: 'Λ Λιτβών μητροπολίτης και πέρτιι ′ Ρωμαυός ) under the agreement of Emperor John V and Tsar John-Alexander of Bulgaria on the marriage of their children and under the act of the synod , under the synod , and the synod . ^[2] The sixth place after the patriarch among those who signed the synodal act testifies to the role of Roman in the Byzantine negotiations with Bulgaria. The signature of Metropolitan Feodul ( Greek: '' Ρωσίου μητροπολίτης και πέρτι ςεδουλος ) is in 12th place.

Between Roman and Alexius, a dispute arose over Kiev , and in 1356 they both came to Constantinople. Patriarch Callistus assigned Lithuania and Little Russia to Roman, but Roman was established in Kiev. In the Russian chronicles it is reported that Metropolitan Alexy came to Kiev in 1358, was arrested here, but was able to escape to Moscow. In 1360, Roman came to Tver . By this time, the Polotsk , Turov , Vladimir , Peremyshl , Galician , Lutsk , Kholmsk , Chernihiv , Smolensk , Bryansk and Belgorod eparchies were part of the Lithuanian-Russian metropolis. Claims of Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia Alexy to the Metropolitan of Lithuania Roman were dealt with at the Synod of Constantinople in July 1361, which secured Romanian Western bishops of Lithuania (the Polotsk, Turov and Novogrudskoye bishops) and the diocese of Little Russia. ^[3] The dispute between Roman and Alexius over Kiev ended with the death of Roman in 1362 and the liquidation of the Lithuanian metropolis with the transfer of it to the Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia Alexy.