Timeline of Orthodoxy in Russia

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Russia under the Patriarch of Constantinople

Kiev Period (988-1237)

• 864 Patriarch Photius sends bishop to Kiev
• 878 Oleg
• 954 Princess Ol'ha (Olga) of Kiev baptized.
• 1163 John is made Bishop of Novgorod and builds seven churches.
• 1185 + John, Bishop of Novgorod, September 7

Mongol Tartars (1237-1448)

• Alexander Nevsky
• Sergius of Radonezh

• 1370 Iconographer Andrei Rublev born.
• 1378 + Metropolitan Alexis of Moscow
• 1430 + Andrew Rublev, iconographer.
• 1448 Russia becomes autocephalous from EP.

(1453-?)

• 1453 Fall of Constantinople
• 1471 +Metropolitan Jonas of Moscow
• 1508 +St. Nilus of Sora
• 1515 +Joseph of Volokalamsk