Published: 2010-12-31

Metropolitan Peter (Rateński) and the future division of the Church of Kiev

Wiktoria Ljubaszczenko

Abstract

The article is an analysis of the ecclesiastical and political activities of the Metropolitan of Kiev, Peter (Rateński), who came from Halych-Volhynia. Most attention is devoted to the most controversial moments in his life and pastoral ministry: the circumstances surrounding Peter's appointment as Metropolitan of Halych (initiated by Prince George I Lvovych of Halych), the reasons for his ordination as Metropolitan of Kiev, his conflict with Grand Prince Vladimir Mikhail Yaroslavich, and his rapprochement with Prince Ivan Danilovich (Kalita) of Moscow. Comparing several biographical elements of Metropolitan Peter and the second Halych-Volhynian candidate, Cyril II, the author reveals the political conditions of their alliance with the Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal. While Cyril II, despite his long stay in Zalesie, maintained his jurisdictional contacts with Kiev, Peter destroyed them. In this way, he influenced the future division of the Kiev Church. The author shows the political circumstances of the metropolitan's canonization—Peter was not the first Russian saint, but the first saint of Moscow. Church tradition made him the founder of the Russian metropolis, representing entirely the interests of Moscow. From that moment on, Moscow gained the status of a holy city, the center of Eastern Orthodoxy, and the successor to the Kiev-Russian history. Metropolitan Peter's ecclesiastical and political activities were linked to the difficult political circumstances surrounding the functioning of the Church of Kiev in the second half of the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th century (the collapse of the old Kievan Rus and the emergence of a new Rus, in which centrifugal tendencies led to the emergence of individual states with autonomous religious intentions).

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Ljubaszczenko, W. (2010). Metropolitan Peter (Rateński) and the future division of the Church of Kiev. Średniowiecze Polskie I Powszechne, 2, 92–117. https://doi.org/10.31261/SPiP.2010.06.05

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