Incorporation of Ukrainian church (Kyiv metropolitanate) religious and political project on 2 actions (2 nd action)

Abstract

This article is the continuation of a short historic outline under the general name “Incorporation of Ukrainian Church (Kyiv Metropolitanate )religious and political project on 2 actions” where author applies visual methods to show the situation of Orthodoxy in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in XVII century and analyses the main social and political factors of Kyiv Metropolitanate incorporation into the Moscow patriarchate. The main attention is focused on the role of Moscow tsarism, hetman Ivan Samoylovych, Cossack sergeant majors and ecclesiastic guidance of Ukrainian Church and Constantinople patriarchy in the process of realization of religious and political project aimed at submission and takeover of Kyiv Metropolitanate, into Moscow patriarchy in 1686

Keywords

• ukrainian church
• diocese
• the patriarchate of constantinople
• the moscow patriarchate
• incorporation
• cathedral
• church canons
• apostolic rules
• regulations cathedrals