By Daniel H. Shubin

From Apostle Andrew to the belief of Soviet authority in 1990, Daniel Shubin offers the total heritage of Christianity in Russia in a 3-volume sequence. The occasions, humans and politics that cast the earliest traditions of Russian Christianity are offered objectively and intensively, describing the increase and dominance of the Russian Orthodox Church, the numerous dissenters and sectarian teams that developed over the centuries (and their persecution), the presence of Catholicism and the inflow of Protestantism and Judaism and different minority religions into Russia. The background covers the better degrees of ecclesiastical job together with the involvement of tsars and princes, in addition to saints and serfs, and priests and mystics. This, the 1st quantity, bargains with the interval from Apostle Andrew to the demise of Tsar Ivan the negative, simply ahead of the election of the 1st Russian Patriarch, a interval of just about 1600 years.

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Vladimir was the youngest of three sons born to Sviatoslav. In their struggle for supremacy in Kiev, in late 978 or early 979 Vladimir killed his brother Yaropolk by decapitation and then took his brother’s wife to be his own. Vladimir gained a reputation in his early years as a military leader who led many soldiers into battle, in several wars, to extend the territory of his realm. According to the Primary Chronicle, Vladimir had 800 concubines; according to the Nikon Chronicle, he had 1100.

Ilarion: ordained 1051; he is further described in the following chapter. 6. Efrim: mentioned by the chroniclers in the year 1055. 7. Giorgi: arrived in Kiev from Constantinople in 1062 and became bishop of Novgorod, which cathedra he held until 1072 when he was selected as metropolitan to succeed Efrim. He traveled to Constantinople to receive ordination that year and held the cathedra through 1076. 8. Ioyann II: ordained 1076 or 1077; he died in 1089. The chronicler describes him as good and blessed, “a man fluent in books and education, charitable to the under-privileged and widows, considerate toward all whether rich or poor; he was humble, meek and quiet; an accomplished speaker who comforted the sorrowful with his holy sermons.

Hearing this, the patriarch ordered his retinue to be summoned for them to perform a holiday liturgy, as they would customarily during a holiday; they lit the incense and arranged the singers and choir. They accompanied the [delegates] into the Church of St. Sophia and set them in the middle of the church in an open area, 25 History of Russian Christianity showing them the beauty of the church, the singing and liturgy of the archbishop and the row of deacons, explaining to them the manner in which they served God.

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