From the beginning in Russia, the piety that arose under the power of the Grand Duke Vladimir and after him the princes of the Russian ancestors of your Imperial Majesty, the throne of Kyiv had a metropolitanate, on which the throne was sent in 988 from the incarnation of the Lord by the Patriarch of Tsarigrad Nikolai Chrysoverg, the first metropolitan, the Right Reverend Michael, who shepherded the new age church Christ was four years old and died; according to Metropolitan Michael, Leonty Grechin was appointed Metropolitan of Kyiv, according to Leonty, Jonah (and according to the Moscow catalog Ioan) was dedicated in 1008 by Sergius to the Patriarch of Tsaregradskagf; according to Joanna, Theopemtus, a Greek for the metropolitanate of Kyiv, became the Patriarch of Tsarigrad, Alexei of Studium, and she consecrated the throne church of St. Sophia on November 1036, 4, shepherding the church for 12 years; according to Theopemte Hilarion of the Russian people, the first Metropolitan of Kyiv came in 1051; according to Hilarion, George 1072 was sent from the Patriarch of Tsarigrad Ioan Xiphilinus; according to George Ioan in 1080 was dedicated by Patriarch Nicholas the Grammar to the throne of Kyiv; according to John, another John the Greek came from Constantinople to the metropolis of Kyiv, from whom Nicholas was appointed patriarch in 1090; according to John Ephraim 1062 years; according to Ephraim Nicholas 1106; according to Nicholas Nikifor 1111; according to Nikifor Nikita 1121; according to Nikita Clement 1147; according to Clemente Constantine 1155; according to Constantine Theodore the Greek 1160; according to Theodore John the third 1194; according to John Constantine another 1167; according to Constantine, Nikephoros is different; according to Nicephorus Matthew; according to Matthew Cyril 1224; according to Cyril, another Cyril 1230; according to Cyril Joseph Greek 1237; according to Joseph Kirill the Russian 1250; according to Cyril Maximus Greek 1283; according to Maximus Saint Peter 1308; according to Saint Peter Theognostus 1228; according to Theognostus
F THE Kyiv CHIARCHY IN THE THIIIRD CENTURY.
Alexey the Holy Russian 1354; according to Saint Alexei Cyprian 1376; according to Cyprian Photius 1409; after Photius Gregory the Bulgarian 1415; according to Gregory Bolgarin Gerasim; according to Gerasim, Isidore the Bulgarian apostate from Orthodoxy at the Council of Florence; Poisidor Jonah of Saints 1448, and from this Metropolitan St. Jonah the metropolis was divided into two metropolises: Moscow and Kyiv metropolitanates. In the Kyiv metropolis, the throne was not long ago, after Jonah, the matchmaker, Bishop of Smolensk Misail, consecration was received from the Patriarch of Constantinople Simeon Trapezuntin in 1474; after Misaila Simeon 1477; according to Siieon Jonah Glezna 1483; after Jonah Macarius the Blessed 1490; according to Macarius Joseph 4497; by Joseph Jonah 1516; according to Jonah another Joseph 1526; according to Joseph Macarius another 1538; after Makariy Silvestre Belkovich 1556; according to Sglvester Iona Protyasovich 1568; after Jonah Elijah Bucha 1577; after Elijah Onnsifor 1578; according to Onesiphorus, from His Holiness Patriarch Jeremiah, having accepted the rule of the Kyiv metropolis, Michael Rogoza broke away from the original Patriarch of Tsarigrad, the natural pastor of Ruse, and cleave to the Pope of Rome. Then the holy church of the metropolis of Kyiv endured great confusion and persecution from the Romans, and for a short time without the pious metropolitan it was poorer; Due to much of the Uneiat persecution of piety, the zealot of Orthodoxy, the zealot of the Eminences, Job of Boretsky, Metropolitan of Kyiv, the non-nastir of the Holy Mphapla of the Golden Top of Kyiv, the renovator, was installed by Theophan as Patriarch of Jerusalem; According to him, the champion of great piety Peter Mogila, having accepted the throne of the Kyiv metropolis in 1632 from the holy Patriarch of Tsarigrad, Blessed Cyril Lukary, renovated the monastery and churches of Kyiv from Roman and Uneiat wickedness, defended them, and with his teaching again enlightened piety. For the powers of the great sovereign, the Tsar and the Grand Duke, blessed and eternally worthy of the memory of Alexei Mikhailovich of all Russia, the autocrat, when Bogdan Khmelnitsky, the ancient ancestral fatherland of your Imperial Majesty, the God-saved city of Kyiv and all of little Russia from the yoke of field work, freed the high power of His Royal Majesty, then Your Eminence Sylvester Kosov, having accepted in 1647 the throne of the Metropolis of Kyiv from Patriarch Iarthenia, firmly preserve holy Orthodoxy from the persecution of the apostles; According to them, the metropolitans of Kyiv were Dionvsiy Balaban, Patriarch Iarfenius 1657, Joseph Tovalsvii, Patriarch