Митрополит Киприан – защитник Православной Церкви в Восточной Европе в конце XIV – начале XV веков

• Authors: Павел Бочек

Title variants

EN

Metropolitan Cyprian – the defender of the Orthodox Church in the Eastern Europe at the end of the XIV and beginning of the XV century

Abstracts

EN

Metropolitan Cyprian, of Bulgarian origin, formed in the spirituality of hesychasm, was sent by the patriarch of Constantinople Philotheus in 1371 to Eastern Europe, still as a simple monk in order to negotiate between grand duke Algirdas, metropolitan of all Russia Alexis and grand duke of Moscow Dimitri. His principal aim was to prevent the Kievan metropoly from being divided into three parts – Polish-Halychian, Lithuanian and Muscovite. He managed to gain the trust of grand duke Algirdas and metropolitan Alexis – preventing the first from conversion into Catholicism and helping the latter in his pastoral duties. As a result he was ordained metropolitan of Kievan Russia and Lithuania in 1375. Due to political issues metropolitan Cyprian was not able to unite under the same jurisdiction equally the Muscovite part of the metropoly. Grand duke Dimitri, claming his independence from the patriarch of Constantinople, named his own candidate for metropolitan of Moscow which was eventually approved many years later by patriarch of Constantinople Macarius. All his life long metropolitan Cyprian strived to maintain a political and ecclesiastical balance and peace between the rival parties, aiming to create a kind of Church Union in the Eastern Europe though the sources are not clear whether it meant union among the Orthodox in the region or kind of union with Roman Catholics. The hierarch established the role of Kievan metropolitan as a kind of Eastern European “ecumenical” metropolitan that could be effective and respected partner of grand dukes and Polish king as well as of patriarch of Constantinople.

Keywords

RU

Литва; Русь; Россия; Польша; Вильнюс; Москва; Константинополь; Православная церковь; монастыри; церковная уния; Ольгерд Гедиминович; Киприан митр.; Димитрий Донской

• Publisher: Akademia Supraska
• Journal: Latopisy Akademii Supraskiej
• Year: 2014
• Volume: Synody Cerkwi Prawosławnej w I Rzeczypospolitej
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 57-70

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Павел Бочек

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2171223