Eparchy of Kiev (Orthodox Church of Ukraine)

Eparchy of Kiev (Russian: Киевская епархия) is central eparchy of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The seat of Eparchy is in Kiev. Eparchy is primatial, its head being the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Ukraine.

History

The eparchy claims its heritage to the original eparchy of Kiev that dates back to the establishment of the Old Russian (Ruthenian) Church under the jurisdiction of Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Old Russian (Ruthenian) Kiev diocese (or archdiocese) is first mentioned in 891, as the 60th by ranks of honor in the list of departments subordinate to the Patriarch of Constantinople, and 61st in the charter of Emperor Leo (886-911). From its beginnings, eparchy of Kiev was central or primatial diocese of the Metropolitanate, which also included a number of other dioceses, created after the baptism of Kievan Rus during the rule of Great Prince Vladimir in 988.

In reality the eparchy history starts since 1685-1686, when the eparchy of Kiev, along with all the Metropolitan of Kiev, has been "transferred" from the Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Moscow.

By Tsar Peter I the Metropolitan of Kiev in the early 18th century became known as archbishop. This lasted until the middle of the century, when the decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, they were again granted the dignity of the Metropolitan. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Kiev diocese consisted of two parts on the right and left banks of the Dnieper River, within subsequently ceded to Chernihiv and Poltava provinces. Most of the diocese called itself "the Diocese of Kiev" and smaller - "Abroad". The jurisdiction of the metropolitan of Kiev in the 18th century, was chaplain of Warsaw within Poland.

Since 1918, the decision of the All-Russian Church Council of 1917-1918 Kiev bishops again become the heads of not only the diocese, but the Church and the autonomous region within Ukraine. After its liquidation by order of Patriarch Tikhon was established Ukrainian Exarchate. The Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, 25-27 October 1990, established autonomous and self-governing Ukrainian Orthodox Church, with its primatial Diocese of Kiev.

Ruling bishops

988(?)–1004(?)[1] Michael and Leontius 988–1018 Theophylact 1008(?)–1017(?)[2] John 1037(?)–1043(?)[2] Teopempt 1051–(?)[3] Hilarion 1055(?)–(?)[4] Ephraim 1072(?)–(?)[4] George (Jurij)[5] 1077(?)–1089[6] John II Prodrom 1090–1091[6] John III 1097–1101(?)[7] Nicholas 1104–1121[7] Nikephoros 1122–1126[8] Nikita 1130(?)–1145(?)[8] Michael II 1147–1159 Kliment Smoliatich 1156–1159[9] Kostiantyn 1161–1163[9] Teodor 1164–1166[9] John IV 1167–1177(?)[10] Costantine II (?)–(?)[10] John V 1182(?)–1197(?)[10] Nikephoros II 1210(?)–1220[11] Matthew 1224–1233[11] Сyril 1237–(?) [11] Joseph 1241–1246 Peter (Akerovich) (as Archbishop of Ruthenia),[12] 1246–1620 vacant 1620–1631 Job 1631–1633[lower-alpha 1] Isaiah 1633–1646 Peter III 1647–1657 Sylvester 1657–1663[14] Dionisius II 1663–1675[15] Joseph V 1663–1679[16] Anton Vinnicky 1679–1685 vacant

Gedeon Chetvertinsky Varlaam Jasinsky Joasaph Krokovsky Varlaam Vonatovich Raphael Zaborovsky Timothy Shcherbatsky Arsenius Mohylansky Gavril Kremenetsky Hilarion Kondratovsky (acting) Samuel Myslavsky Hierothenius Malitsky Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni Serapion Aleksandrovsky Yevgeny Bolkhovitinov Filaret Amfiteatrov Isidore Nikolsky Arsenius Moskvin Filothy Uspiensky Platon Gorodetsky Joannicius Rudniev Silvester Malevansky (acting) Theognost Lebiediev Flavian Gorodetsky Vladimir Bogoyavlensky Nicodemus (Krotkov) (acting) Antony (Khrapovitsky) Nazarius Blinov (acting) Michael Yermakov (acting) Vasilius Bogdashevsky (acting) Makarius Karmazin (acting) Michael Yermakov Sergius Kuminsky (acting) Georgius Dieliyev (acting) Dimitrius Verbitsky Sergius Grishin Constantine Dyakov Alexander Petrovsky (acting) Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church, Panteleimon Rudyk John Sokolov Joasaph Leliukhin Alipius Khotovitsky (acting) Filaret (Denysenko) Epiphanius I of Ukraine Filaret (Denysenko)

Notes

1. The hierarchy which was consecrated in 1620 was legalized by the government in a 1632 agreement that permitted both the disuniate Greek Orthodox and uniate Greek Catholic jurisdictions within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.[13]

References

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12. Epstein, S. Purity Lost: Transgressing Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000–1400. JHU Press, 2007
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