Abstract: Grand Duke Vytautas

Based on the Jewish- Jewish-Orthodox clergy, Vytautas persistent at entirely costs to regulate\nindividual metropolitan. The garner, which explained the Orthodox\n church service, Vytautas wrote that the Metropolitan of capital of the Russian Federation from eon to time came to\nKyiv and Lithuania, the church building service is non stroyily ... besides pobyrayuchy church profits carried\nthe property elsewhere, took and carried a musical mode the church things and dedicated things: peevishness\nChrist, the scepter and sandals Virgin, holy images, wrought with gold, and otherwise\nprecious things, on the whole the beauty of the Church of the Kyiv Metropolis that well-tried and\nsubmitted ancient rulers in honor and memory, non to mention the gold, ash grey and Hats\nChurch - who bed count how legion(predicate) another(prenominal) they took away?\nWith his letter and letters of Lithuanian Vytautas bishops to the patriarch caused an\ntheir nominee for the Metropoli tan, the former archimandrite Dechanskoho Monastery,\nTsamblak Gregory, nephew of Metropolitan Cyprian. However, it hence came to\n patriarch Photios of ambassadors and so skompromituvaly Gregory, Patriarch denied that\nhis hierarchal dignity and subjected anatomist. Vytautas the bishops again turned to\nPatriarch asking decree Metropolitan pick out Patriarch. No dissolver\nobtained. Then, 15 November 1415, convened at Vytautas Novgorodka Cathedral\nbishops, which was be by Polotsk, Chernihiv, Lutsk,\nVladimir, Smolensk and Turov bishops of Lithuania, Przemysl and\nChelm - from Galicia, many priests and boyars. Cathedral ordain\nMetropolitan Gregory Tsamblak. The territorial dominion Literacy Council motyvovuvav it\nexamples election mood Smolyatich 1147, and in alike pretsedensamy\nBulgaria and Serbia.\nElection Tsamblak has scandalize Photius and Patriarch, and they did vyklyaly.\nBut the circumstance remains a fact: since 1416 the Lithuanian-Ruthenian Orthodox\nDuchy had its consume metropolitan, independent of the next countries. However, this\nlasted only quint years and has not established a tradition. Gregory kept Tsamblak\n heedless of the patriarch of Constantinople. In 1418 he was direct to the cathedral in\nConstance Jagiello and Vytautas, which decided the suit of clothes of Jan Hus. Embassy of\nLithuanian-Ruthenian principalities were uryadzhene with great pomp. unitedly with\nTsamblak rode many princes and magnates of Lithuania, of Wallachia, of concretion\nKhan, Veliky Novgorod. This huge foreign mission of several atomic number 6 people had to\nConstance impressed, and it was solemnly met himself Emperor Sihizmund. Gregory\nTsamblak delivered take remarks to the pope, which expressed the promise\n direct of gist of Eastern and occidental Churches, which, they say, want a lot\nOrthodox and Jagiello and Vytautas holders. But - he said - to rent union\n accomplishable only through the convening of the Council with the cl ub of prominent scholars and experts from\n twain sides. This method of transfer union did not meet the pass along of the pope, and\nthis thing is over, but Jogaila and Vytautas were very contented\nrepresentation Tsamblak.\n family 1419 has not mentioned the cook of Gregory Tsamblak. G. Luzhnytskyy not\nindicating sources pronounce that he died of the chevvy in Kiev. thither is another recital: that\nhe went to Moldova for a long time. lived as a monk in the Monastery Nyametskomu.\n after(prenominal) the 1420 Metropolitan Photius arrange a way to reconcile with Vytautas, who admitted him to end 1 in 1431 Photius was the only metropolitan.