The Kievan or pre-Mongol period

The Spread of Christianity

Church administration in the Kievan period

Dioceses and bishops

Diocesan Governing Bodies

Church Laws

Means of Maintenance of the Higher Hierarchy

Parish clergy

Relations between the authorities, church and state

Monasticism in the pre-Mongol period

Christianization of the Russian people

A) Faith

B) Morality (personal and public)

Education of state power

Inculcating Enlightenment

Disconnection from the West

Moscow period

A. From the invasion of the Mongols to the fall of the southwestern metropolis

The fate of the Russian Metropolia. The development of its relations to the Greek Church, on the one hand, and to the Russian state power, on the other (XIII-XVI centuries)

M. Cyril (1249-1281)

Maximus (1287-1305)

Peter (1308-1326)

Fegnost (1328-1353)

Alexius (1353-1378)

The Struggle for the Unity of the Russian Metropolia

Mikhail, nicknamed (surname) Mityai

Pimen

Metropolitan Cyprian (1390-1406)

Metropolitan Photius (1408-1431)

Gerasim (1433-1435)

Isidore (1436-1441)

Church Self-Government of Moscow after the Expulsion of Metropolitan Isidore

Metropolitan Jonah (1448-1461)

The final division of the Russian Metropolia (1458)

Theodosius (1461-1464)

B. From the Division of the Metropolia to the Establishment of the Patriarchate (1496-1596)

Metropolitan Theodosius (1461-1464)

Philip (I) (1464-1473)

Gerontius (1473-1489)

Zosima (1490-1494)

Simon (1495-1511)