Timeline of Orthodoxy in Russia

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Russia under the Patriarch of Constantinople

Period of the Kievan Metropolia (988-1304)

• 864 Patriarch Photius sends bishop to Kiev
• 878 Oleg
• 954 Princess Ol'ha (Olga) of Kiev baptized.
• 991 + St. Michael of Kiev
• 1007 + Leontii of Kiev
• 1035 + Ivan I of Kiev
• 1049 + Feopemt of Kiev
• 1050 + Kirill I of Kiev
• 1051 Ilarion of Kiev installed to the primatial see; St. Anthony of the Caves brings Athonite monasticism to Russia.

Moscow and Vladimir (1304-1448)

• 1158 + Konstantin I of Kiev
• 1163 John is made Bishop of Novgorod and builds seven churches.
• 1185 + John, Bishop of Novgorod, September 7

Mongol Tartars (1237-1448)

• Alexander Nevsky
• Sergius of Radonezh

• 1370 Iconographer Andrei Rublev born.
• 1378 + Metropolitan Alexis of Moscow
• 1430 + Andrew Rublev, iconographer.
• 1448 Church of Russia declares independence from the Church of Constantinople.

(1453-?)

• 1453 Fall of Constantinople
• 1471 +Metropolitan Jonas of Moscow
• 1508 +St. Nilus of Sora
• 1515 +Joseph of Volokalamsk
• 1580 +John of Rostov, September 3
• 1588 Grand Duke Theodor applies for permission to form a new Patriarchate for the Russian people.
• 1589 Autocephaly of the Church of Russia officially acknowledged by the Ecumenical Patriarchate; First Patriarch of Moscow, Metropolitan Job of Moscow crowned.

The Synodical Church (1700-1917)

• 1700 + Patriarch Adrian
• 1721 Holy and Governing Synod

All-Russian Church Council (1917-Present)

• 1917 All-Russian Church Council; Council elects Metropolitan Tikhon of Moscow as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
• 1918 + Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky) of Kiev and Gallich
• 1925 + Tikhon of Moscow
• 1945 + Sergius I (Stragorodsky) of Moscow
• 1970 + Alexei I (Simansky) of Moscow
• 1990 + Pimen I (Izvekov) of Moscow
• 1992 Vladimir of Kiev glorified.
• 1998 Church of Constantinople, not recognizing Russia's right to issue a tomos of autocephaly in 1951, issues its own tomos for the Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia;
• 2000 Russian Orthodox Church announces the canonization of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family; the restored Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow was consecrated on August 19; Church of Russia glorified Hieromartyr Andronik, Archbishop of Perm, one of Russia's New Martyrs and Confessors.
• 2004 Consecration of first Orthodox church in Antarctica by Church of Russia; Tikhvin Icon returned to Tikhvin Dormition Monastery after six decades in the United States; Ecumenical Patriarchate canonizes Fr. Alexis Medvedkov, Fr. Dimitri Klepinine, Mother Maria Skobtsova, George Skobtsov and Elie Fondaminskii of the Russian emigration in France;
• 2006 Publication of first Orthodox prayer book in Chinese and Russian; Pope Benedict XVI drops Patriarch of the West title; Russian Orthodox parish opened in Pyongyang, North Korea;
• 2007 Restoration of full communion between Moscow Patriarchate and ROCOR; Russian delegation walks out of Ravenna talks in protest of presence of Estonian delegation (EP);
• 2008 + Alexei II (Ridiger) of Moscow
• 2009 Kyrill I (Gundyayev) of Moscow elected as Metropolitan.