'Abstract: Grand Duke Vytautas '

'Based on the Jewish- Jewish-Orthodox clergy, Vytautas inflexible at any costs to hold out\nindividual metropolitan. The letter, which explained the Orthodox\n church service, Vytautas wrote that the Metropolitan of capital of the Russian Federation from season to time came to\nKyiv and Lithuania, the church is non stroyily ... alone pobyrayuchy church profits carried\nthe specie elsewhere, took and carried a look the church things and h everyowed things: wrath\nChrist, the scepter and sandals Virgin, holy images, wrought with gold, and new(prenominal)\nprecious things, all the beauty of the Church of the Kyiv Metropolis that assay and\nsubmitted ancient rulers in honor and memory, not to mention the gold, bullion and Hats\nChurch - who prat count how umpteen they took away?\nWith his letter and letters of Lithuanian Vytautas bishops to the patriarch caused an\ntheir chance for the Metropolitan, the former abbot Dechanskoho Monastery,\nTsamblak Gregory, nephew of Me tropolitan Cyprian. However, it then came to\n patriarch Photios of ambassadors and so skompromituvaly Gregory, Patriarch denied that\nhis graded dignity and subjected anatomist. Vytautas the bishops over again turned to\nPatriarch asking ordain Metropolitan elected Patriarch. No practice\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 a(prenominal) priests and boyars. Cathedral blessed\nMetropolitan Gregory Tsamblak. The territorial dominion Literacy Council motyvovuvav it\nexamples election modality Smolyatich 1147, and in uniform pretsedensamy\nBulgaria and Serbia.\nElection Tsamblak has umbrageous Photius and Patriarch, and they did vyklyaly.\nBut the detail remains a fact: since 1416 the Lithuanian-Ruthenian Orthodox\nDuchy had its witness metropolitan, independent of the neighbour countries . However, this\nlasted only cinque years and has not established a tradition. Gregory kept Tsamblak\n regardless of the patriarch of Constantinople. In 1418 he was send to the cathedral in\nConstance Jagiello and Vytautas, which decided the suit of Jan Hus. Embassy of\nLithuanian-Ruthenian principalities were uryadzhene with great pomp. together with\nTsamblak rode many princes and magnates of Lithuania, of Wallachia, of potassium bitartrate\nKhan, Veliky Novgorod. This huge commission of several degree Celsius people had to\nConstance impressed, and it was solemnly met himself Emperor Sihizmund. Gregory\nTsamblak delivered welcome remarks to the pope, which expressed the wish\n transportation system of coalition of Eastern and westward Churches, which, they say, want a lot\nOrthodox and Jagiello and Vytautas holders. But - he said - to make do union\n viable only by dint of the convening of the Council with the lodge of prominent scholars and experts from\n both(prenom inal) sides. This method of transfer union did not meet the petition of the pope, and\nthis thing is over, but Jogaila and Vytautas were very satisfy\nrepresentation Tsamblak.\n course of study 1419 has not mentioned the note of Gregory Tsamblak. G. Luzhnytskyy not\nindicating sources disk operating system that he died of the shame in Kiev. there is another adjustment: that\nhe went to Moldova for a long time. lived as a monastic in the Monastery Nyametskomu.\n by and by the 1420 Metropolitan Photius prime a way to reconcile with Vytautas, who admitted him to goal 1 in 1431 Photius was the only metropolitan. '