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According to tradition, St. [[Apostle Andrew|Andrew]] the First-Called, while preaching the [[Gospel]], stopped at the Kievan hills to bless the future city of Kiev. But it was [[Photius the Great|Photius]] Patriarch of Constantinople (858 – 886) who first initiated missionary work on a large scale among these Slavs.

The south of Russia was blessed with the work of Ss. [[Cyril]] and [[Methodius]] [[Equal-to-the-Apostles]], the [[Illuminator]]s of the Slavs. Although their work was around 863 in Moravia (roughly equivalent to the modern [[Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia|Slovakia]]), the benefit was to all the Slavic lands (particularly [[Church of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]], [[Church of Serbia|Serbia]], and Russia).