49. Около 1420 г. Его же настольная грамота неизвестному епископу владимирскому на Волыне

From synodal manuscript No. 562, l. 77 vol.–78, which is entitled: “Message on the unification of the Metropolis of Kyiv and Moscow.” It was published, according to the same list, in Volume I of the Historical Acts in 1414 and with the name of Bishop Gerasim (No. 18). The date of the charter is in the manuscript itself, but the name of the bishop is included in the published text for the reason that at the famous Lithuanian council on November 15, 1415, at which a special metropolitan for Kievan Rus, Gregory Tsamblak, was installed, Vladimir Bishop Gerasim was present (See No. 38). Meanwhile, the very content of the act clearly points to a later time (after 1419), when the Kiev metropolis was again reunited with the Moscow one. It is necessary, therefore, to accept that the date of the charter in the synodal list is corrupted; Damage could easily occur by replacing the last numerical sign .и҃. similar sign .к҃. (i.e. instead of ҂ѕц҃в. = 1420 in the later list there appeared ҂ѕц҃кв. = 1414 g). Since then, by the favor and grace of God, the Russian Church has been united, and has been brought into the first world and established, and all divisions have been abolished, and indulgences and rebellions have been overthrown, and according to long-standing custom and law, it has become 2103, a single metropolitanate to be in the entire Russian land, as it was from the beginning from holy baptism, and there is one metropolitan Kiev and all Rus', according to ancient tradition and according to the conciliar charter of the most holy and ecumenical patriarch (name) with the 2104 divinely crowned king, and the entire sacred and great council justified 2105 me my metropolis, the entire Russian land. And it is worthy, because of so many rumors and storms, for the Russian 2106 metropolis to come to its rank. And for this reason, I, by the grace given to me from the Most Holy and Life-Giving Spirit, elected with a sacred council for us the most sacred archbishops and bishops of the holy monk (name) and installed his bishop in the most holy bishopric of the God-saved city of Vladimir and over the entire border of that bishopric, as far as from the beginning it has, according to the long-standing duty: for whose sake the God-loving one should eat bishop, in the Holy Spirit, the beloved son and co-servant of our humility (name) to accept the church entrusted to him and create in it, as worthy of his bishops: to appoint readers, to appoint subdeacons and deacons and presbyters, and also to appoint abbots 2107 in monasteries; to teach Orthodox people the Gospel commandments and Christian law, and to guide the lost to the true path. For this reason, the noble and Christ-loving princes should listen to him and give him the honor 2108, as well as the entire priestly and monastic rank, and all the people named after Christ, who were given over to that bishopric, knowing this, as to give honor to the saint - this honor passes to God himself, whose vicar is the saint. And I know that you will do according to my word, and write to you, and you will inherit my blessing. For this reason, this letter of mine was given 2109 of our humility, for confirmation, to the God-loving bishop of the most holy bishopric, in the year 6922. In the original, after the cost and - superfluous. In the original the division was corrected by a later hand. In authentic it costs him further - superfluous. You might be interested in: