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1499; 1712; 1744; 1751; 1756 (Official Russian Church Slavonic Bible);
*1448 Russian Church (Moscow Metropolis) became autocephalous
*1471 †Metropolitan [[Jonas of Moscow]]
*1499 The [[Gennady Bible]] (Gennadievskaia Biblia), the oldest surviving complete collection of Biblical books in the [[Church Slavonic]] language, is completed under the auspices of Abp. Gennady of Novgorod (1484-1504).
*1508 †[[Nilus of Sora]]
*1515 †[[Joseph of Volokalamsk]]
*1589 [[Ecumenical Patriarchate]] acknowledges [[autocephaly]] of [[Church of Russia]] and first Patriarch of Moscow, Metropolitan [[Job of Moscow]] is styled.
*1666 Moscow Big Council
*1700 [[w:Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]] published an ''Ukase'' (edict) on [[June 18|June 18th]] that made a resounding appeal for the propagation of the faith in Siberia and China; death of Patr. [[Adrian of Moscow|Adrian]].
*1700-†1720 Patriarchal [[Locum Tenens]] metropolitan [[Stephen Yavorsky]]
*1702 In response to the [[Ukaz]] of 1700, [[Philothei (Leschinsky)]] of Kiev is chosen as Metropolitan of Tobolsk and All Siberia (1702-1711), long since a center of [[missionary]] operations, in order to ''"lead the natives in China and Siberia to the service of the true and living God"''; he built 37 churches and personally accounted for the baptism of 40,000 Siberian tribesmen by 1721.
*1712 Tsar Peter the Great issued an ukaz ordering the printed Slavonic text of the Bible to be carefully compared with the Greek of the [[Septuagint]] and to be made in every respect conformable to it; the revision was completed in 1724 and was ordered to be printed, but the death of Peter (1725) prevented the execution of the order.
== The Synodical Church (1720-1917) ==
* 1721 [[Apostolic Governing Synod|Holy and Governing Synod]] has been established
* 1724 Beginning of christianisation of yakuts, baptism of Kalmyk khan Baksadai
* 1744 Empress Elizabeth issues an ukaz ordering resumption of the work of revision of the Slavonic Bible, started by Peter the Great in 1712.
* 1751 The first edition of the Queen "Elizabeth" Slavonic Bible (QEB), ([[Septuagint|LXX]]), was published.
* 1756 The second edition of the [[Queen Elizabeth Bible|Queen "Elizabeth" Bible]] (QEB) is issued ([[Septuagint|LXX]]); all later reprints of the Russian Church Bible are based upon this second edition, which is the authorized version of the [[Church of Russia|Russian Orthodox Church]].
* 1764 The decree by Empress Ecaterine II on the secularization of Church lands in Great Russia
* 1771 Decree about establishing orthodox mission for ossetians
