40. 1416 г. Грамота константинопольского патриapxa Иосифа II к митрополиту Фотию о Григории Цамблаке

From a collection of the 15th century. Novgorod-Sofia Library No. 1454. l. 122–124 vol., from where it was published in the “Chronicle of the Archaeographer’s Occupations. Commissions", vol. 3, app. pp. 26–28. The original does not indicate the name of the patriarch or the time of writing the letter. Both are revealed from the following data: 1) the letter was obviously written after Tsamblak was appointed to the Kyiv metropolitanate, i.e. after November 16, 1415; 2) the patriarch, at the very beginning of the letter, announces his recent appointment, which fully applies to Joseph II, who was elevated to the patriarchal throne in May 1416, but cannot apply to his predecessor Euthymius (1410–1416). See Lequesne in Oriens Christianus, t. 1, p. 305–306. Patriarchal to Metropolitan Photius Most holiness, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus' and most honest about the Holy Spirit, beloved brother of our humility and colleague, Photius! May God give you grace and peace to your holiness. And our humility by destinies, as God knows, on the high patriarchal sigh of the table, by the judgment of the sacred and divine council and by the election and will of my most powerful and holy autocrat; I therefore wanted to soon write to your holiness about 1816 us, giving notice of the former 1817, but the disorder for the sake of the way, neither from us to you passing, nor from you to us, and forbid us this. Why did the scripture of your holiness come to us, and the providential send the same to your holiness, and we write with the same to your people, a prayer for those who are in health to accept our scripture, and according to our desire, may it be fulfilled. Yes, you know, beloved brother, what kind of food you receive from your holiness, and how you know extensively, which Tsamblak Gregory created; We knew about this before, and from that hour we thought as much as possible about correcting this thing, for the benefit of your holiness. And you compel our humility to strive for the correction of this past, and it is worthy: like this, as for this lawless and ungodly deed, all Christians must earnestly strive for this, just as you do. And since we are also 1818 blaming ourselves for this, and what’s more, my most powerful holy autocrat is quite sorrowful about this, 1819 my most powerful, holy autocrat, as befits a Christ-loving noble-believing king: we are also very sorrowful about this, and we have a need, as if we will correct this according to the law and according to the rule, as God pleases. And for this reason, let there be no weakening or surrender from us, which will be there to Tsamblak Gregory. They think a lot about this, but their thoughts are in no way weak; We think about God, what kind of correction there will be for this past: this is a lawless, impudent deed that has been created to destroy the law and divine rules and all church tradition. And it is fitting for everyone to stand united in the Church of Christ and strive as mightily. From that lawless action he gained nothing for himself, except ejection and excommunication and damnation; There is no way he can accept this hope, until he remains in his lawless action; When will he repent and retreat from his deeds, and come to the reasoning of the divine and sacred council, and want to be about it, God will appear to the divine and sacred council. Now the divine and sacred council, having gathered for the occasion, the holy saints, the most honorable metropolitans of Heraclius and Angir and many others, and by the common judgment of these, Tsamblak Gregory was cast down, according to the divine and sacred rules, by eruption, into excommunication and damnation. And for this reason, the holy king wrote to the Grand Duke Vitovt, and so do we, about correcting this thing, and we hope that since there is a smart ruler, he will make correction about the former and drive away his practiced one. And if this happens, we write to your holiness, so that when you come to us, you need to eat, and in the cathedral we will think about the Christians there, how they will get rid of the excommunication and burden that is on them from the divine rules, and for the sake of their lack of understanding, the burden will remain on them. If we don’t take care of this, we ourselves will pass judgment on this and on other corrections. 1820 It is good and all those will be corrected before you, and it is convenient for you and everyone to come to us, lest the great prince Vytautas marry him. And so we force you to come to us, and it remains in your reasoning that my son, the Grand Duke, may the grace of God and peace and love and my prayer and blessing be with your holiness. Further in authentic. still worth it from an ex. It seems that we need to read: us. This is how it is corrected in the original instead of durable. You might be interested in: