67. 1451 г. января 31. Грамота польского короля Казимира IV московскому митрополиту Ионе на управление киевской митрополией

From the collection of Count A.S. Uvarov No. 512 (formerly Tsarskogo No. 366), l. 245 vol.–247; was published in Volume I of the Historical Acts under No. 42, according to the list found in the Synodal List No. 562, l. 95–97. Royal tabletop, for Kyiv, given to Jonah, Metropolitan of All Rus' 2659 Every good deed and every gift accomplished from above descends from divine will, in the name of the holy 2660 and life-giving indivisible Trinity, into the mind and into the confirmation of the 2661 first-time honors 2662 unlikely, as it was for our father, King Volodislav, and the Grand Duke Vytautas, our uncle, and other of our ancestors, we are Casimir, by the grace of God the king Polish and Grand Duke of Lithuania and Russian and Zhemotsk and others, having guessed and looked kindly with our brother, Grand Duke Vasily Vasilyevich 2663, and with our princes and gentlemen, with our Rada, fell in love with me as their father, Metropolitan Jonah 2664, the former bishop of Murom and Ryazan, and gave He is the capital of the Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus', as was the first, according to the rules and customs of Russian Christianity; and he has his honor and his metropolitan charter to rule in the old way, as the first metropolitans ruled our ancestors and ruled their Christianity with good 2665 customs. About the same thing, our princes, and bishops, and boyars, and archimandrites, and abbots, and priests, and deacons, and monks, and all church clerks, and all the common peoples of 2666 Russian Christianity, have and honor it, and you will be obedient in the spiritual rights of that metropolitan, our father Jonah 2667, as the first-time metropolitans. And at that election 2668 there were: Stryko our Prince Shvitrikgailo, our brother 2669 Prince Oleksandro Volodimerovich, Prince Matey, Biskup Vilinsky, governor of Vilinsky Pan Kgastov 2670, governor Trotsky 2671 Pan Manivid 2672, governor of Novgorod, marshal zemsky, Pan Peter 2673 Montikgirdovich, Pan Sudivoy, governor 2674 of Smolensk, Pan Semyon Kgedikgoldovich, Pan Ondrei Nemirovich, Pan Ondrei Isakovich, governor of Polo, Pan Yursha, headman of Bryaslovl, Pan Mikhalo, chancellor, and many other of our princes and gentlemen. 2675 And given in Vilna, January 31, indictment 14, around the year of the birth of Christ 1451. 2676 The synodal list is entitled: Instruction to the Metropolitan of Moscow for the Kiev metropolitanate from the king. the former, according to the honor of the Act. Good in the original; corrected according to Act. and all the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Act. In authentic chosen; Act. in election. In authentic Trinity; corrected according to Act. Kovno, Pan Vilensky follows further in the Act. and many other of our princes and lords Act. You might be interested in: