Metropolitan Michael - Holy Russian Church ; commemorated June 15 and September 30 according to the Julian calendar [1] . According to church tradition, he was the first Metropolitan of Kiev ( 988-991 ). Presumably comes from Bulgaria or Syria.
| Metropolitan Michael | ||
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| assumptions 988 - presumption 991 | ||
| Church | Constantinople Orthodox Church | |
| Community | Kyiv Metropolis | |
| Successor | Leon | |
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As A.V. Popppe notes, “according to it, which was fixed in the 16th century. traditions, Michael was the first Kiev metropolitan, inherited by Leon (aka Leontius). The source of this tradition is the so-called church charter of Vladimir I , which dates back to the 12th — 13th centuries. According to this monument, Michael was a contemporary of Vladimir and Patriarch Photius of Constantinople (whose lives differ by at least 60 years), which in turn gave rise to the opinion that Michael was the anonymous bishop who was sent by Photius to Russia in 867. The appearance of the name of Michael in the church statute is explained by the fact that in the Tale of Bygone Years under the year 988 is the instruction about faith, allegedly taught to the newly baptized Vladimir. It is nothing but a shortened translation of the creed of Michael Sinchell in the first half of the 9th century. The compilers of the church statute took this “instruction” as written for Vladimir's sake, and thus concluded that the author of the creed was also the first Russian metropolitan. ” In Rostov, St. Michael set Bishop of Theodore the Greek . [2]
He was sent in 988 , in the reign of the emperors Vasily II and Constantine VIII of the Porfironidae, by the Patriarch of Constantinople Nicholas II Rediscovery in Korsun for the baptism of Prince Vladimir . From there he arrived in Kiev for the baptism of Kiev .
Initially, his relics were located in the Church of the Tithes , then in the Near Caves of the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery ; in 1730, they were transferred to the Great Lavra Church .
Notes
- ↑ St. Michael, Metropolitan of Kiev on the website of Orthodoxy.Ru
- ↑ Poppa A. V. Metropolitans of Kiev and All Russia (988–1305) // Ya. N. Shchapov. State and Church of Ancient Russia of the 10th — 13th Centuries. Pp. 191–206.
Links
- Michael of Kiev, saint on the site of Russian Orthodoxy
- October 13 - the memory of St. Michael, the first Metropolitan of Kiev, the official website of the MP