![]() ![]() In 2019, that church in Kiev (Kyiv) became the cathedral for an autocephalous (independent) Orthodox Church of Ukraine, no longer subordinate to the Orthodox Church of Russia. Half a century later, a cathedral church was established at Kiev, St Sophia, named after the Hagia Sophia, Church of Holy Wisdom, at Constantinople. Vladimir had ruled at Novgorod before Kiev, and his realm stretched from the Baltic Sea to Crimea. The connection began with an earlier Vladimir, a tenth-century Grand Prince of Kiev, who received Christian baptism along with the hand in marriage of the sister of the reigning Byzantine emperor. He has spoken of Moscow as the Third Rome, the successor to the Second Rome - Byzantium’s capital, Constantinople. Like the tsars that preceded him, Vladimir Putin regards Russia as the heir to Byzantium, the Orthodox Christian empire that dominated much of Southeastern Europe and the Middle East for a thousand years. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. This article is taken from the May 2023 issue of The Critic. ![]()
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