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)
- 1370 Iconographer Andrei Rublev born.
- 1378 + Metropolitan Alexis of Moscow
- 1430 + Andrew Rublev, iconographer.
- 1448 Russia becomes autocephalous from EP.
(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
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