Metropolis of Lithuania
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The Metropolis of Lithuania was a metropolis of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Orthodox Church. It was erected on the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania between 13
Fresco of Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos, who established the Metropolis
Cyprian was a prelate of Bulgarian origin, who served as the Metropolitan of Kiev, Rus' and Lithuania and the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus' in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. During
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…fire-worshippers" (i.e. still a pagan). Nevertheless, the point was carried, and Algirdas' intervention was successful in raising his own candidate — Cyprian — to the throne. On 2 December 1375, at the Holy Council in Constantinople, Philotheus, who had been restored to the patriarchy, ordained Cyprian as…
Icon of the 17th century in Assumption Cathedral Kremlin.
Theognostus, Cyprian, Photius