1580s Transfer Attempts of the Ecumenical Patriarch's Seat

Paper title:	*1580s Transfer Attempts of the Ecumenical Patriarch's Seat to the Ruthenian Lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Rzeczpospolita)*
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.4316/CC.2022.01.01
Published in:	Issue 1, (Vol. 28) / 2022
Publishing date:	2022-07-31
Pages:	7-28
Author(s):	Larysa Shvab, Yulia Tokarska
Abstract:	The article focuses on the historical issue surrounding the 1580s plans to transfer the Ecumenical Patriarch Jeremiah II Tranos’ seat to the Rus regions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Due to the changes in the structure of the Constantinople Patriarchate and the fact that the Rus lands were becoming increasingly dependent on the Moscow, Lithuanian and Polish principalities, such a plan allowed for a new context of relations between the Kyiv Metropolitanate and the Constantinople Patriarchate. The unification of the Eastern and Western Churches in the 15th century enabled popes to actively participate in the Kyiv Church’s life. At the end of the 16th century, the functioning of church institutions varied throughout the Christian world. The Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches were planning a missionary invasion of the East, while the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Kyiv Metropolitanate were becoming increasingly consumed by the institutional crises. The shared aspirations of the Greek Orthodox and Kyiv Churches in the revival of Byzantine Church ecclesiastical, cultural, and political traditions strengthened the institutional ties between the Kyiv Metropolitanate and the Patriarchate of Constantinople. They were defined at the end of the 16th century by the calendar reform and the prospect of establishing a patriarchate in the East Slavic lands, namely in the settlement of the Orthodox Prince Kostiantyn Vasyl Ostrozkyi. The claims of the Ruthenian-Ukrainians to a patriarchate in the Rus lands boosted the formation of the Moscow Patriarchate (1589).
Keywords:	Constantinople Patriarchate, Kyiv Metropolitanate, Moscow, the seat, East Slavic lands.

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