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The Rus Archbishop Peter at the First Council of Lyon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2019

ALEXANDER V. MAIOROV
ALEXANDER V. MAIOROV*
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Department of Museology, Institute of History, St Petersburg State University, Mendeleevskaia Linia 5, St Petersburg, Russia199053; e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

The article establishes that the role of the Rus Archbishop Peter at the First Council of Lyon (1245) was not limited to conveying sensational information about the Tatars, as is usually believed. Peter was willing to resume negotiations between the Apostolic See and the rulers of the Byzantine (Nicene) Empire on the union of Churches, which continued with varying success throughout the thirteenth century. In the mid-1240s the Rus church hierarchs, who headed the Kiev (all Rus) Metropolitanate of the Byzantine Church, played an important, yet underestimated by researchers, role in establishing direct contacts between the Byzantine and Roman Churches and resuming negotiations for church unity.

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 71 , Issue 1 , January 2020 , pp. 20 - 39
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This study was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Science Federation (Российский Научный Фонд project), no. 16-18-10137-П.

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