95. 1461 г. июля 8. Послание митрополита Феодосия новгородскому apxиепископу Ионе, о незаконном киевском митрополите Григории

From the collection of Count A.S. Uvarov No. 512 (formerly Tsarskogo No. 366), l. 295–296; It was published according to the same list, in the first volume of Historical Acts, No. 275. In the manuscript above the text of the message there is the following title: To Veliky Novgorod Theodosius, Metropolitan of All Russia, there was a letter with Grigory Vasilyevich Zabolotsky, Bishop Blessing of Theodosius, Metropolitan of All Rus', in the Holy Spirit to the son and colleague of our humility, Jonah, Archbishop of Veliky Novgorod and Pskov. The grace of the Almighty Lord God, and his Most Pure Mother of God, and Saint Peter Metropolitan, the new miracle worker, and peace and mercy be upon all your love for God with all the flock of Christ, Orthodox Christians, handed over to you from God. It is known to you, my son, that Sidor 2862, an apostate from Orthodoxy, a disciple and like-minded person of Gregory, came to the Lithuanian land, and calls himself the Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus': the hearing is so complete that the king accepted him, and gave him the capital of Kiev, and in all his dominion he knew the holy Church of God and all the church justifications. And by which, son, by deeds, that Gregory will send anyone of his to you, to our son, and you, my son, according to your promise, as you made your vow to God and his Most Pure Mother of God, and to the great wonderworker Peter, and to our brother Jonah the Metropolitan, at first, in his installation, and you also gave your letter with your signature and seal, after the pack of my brother Jonah the Metropolitan, now, You have firmly described this vow in your letters, [and] you have sent to my lord and son Grand Duke Vasily Vasilyevich and to my lord and son Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich, also about the Holy Spirit to the sons and co-workers of our humility, to the Russian bishops, to your brethren, you have sent the same to your other letter: and you would now, about my Holy Spirit the son, remembering that holy vow before God in his installation, and according to his firm, given letters, did not accept or demand blessings from that apostate, Isidore’s disciple Gregory, and did not heed his writings and teachings, keeping his only-begotten immortal soul from such heresy; and if you would firmly strengthen your children, handed over from God to Christ's flock, the Orthodox Christianity of Veliky Novgorod and Pskov, with great punishment from the divine scriptures, so that his blessings and teachings would also be accepted by her, they would not be sent to him with anything, so that the holy cathedral apostolic church of our Orthodoxy would not be shaken by his heresies. Zanje, the son with whom Patriarch Gregory, who was convicted of heresies and expelled from the Reigning City, came with the papal letters, and from those letters full lists came to us, and we looked at those lists together, and with those letters he himself expressed his heresy: the first thing to be delivered in Rome and in the Roman Church, from the Latin assembly, and not originally from the Orthodox Patriarch, nor from divine and sacred rules; I know, my son, that you are skilled in the divine scripture and the divine and sacred rules of goodness, that, as our Orthodoxy has become great, the Metropolitan did not come from Rome to our Orthodoxy. And now my lord and son, the Great Prince Vasily Vasilyevich, and my lord and son, the Great Prince Ivan Vasilyevich, and all our great Orthodoxy, instructed and strengthened by God, not only to see him, but also to hear his apostate name, they do not want, nor anyone else who came from the Roman law, as long as our land is preserved by God and stands: out of the way, son, that apostate from ours Orthodox faith of Isidore and his like-minded person, I hope that even before this you, my son, know everything about this. And you, my son, about the Holy Spirit, would like to know how powerfully, great insight and reasoning you had and fought for Orthodoxy, like the former great holy confessors, of whom you, my son, are good; and for this reason I believe in Christ, my Master, that you will receive from the Almighty God grace and mercy and prosperity with longevity, and especially the heavenly and endless kingdom, and with all the flock of Christ entrusted to you by God, which I pray you will receive in endless centuries, and from our humility blessing and prayer. And it was written in Moscow, July at 8, indicta 9. The following is written and enclosed in the same document: And that you, my son, sent to us your boyar son, named Vasily, and with your assistants, according to the original, like your former brothers, the archbishops of Veliky Novgorod and Pskov, sent to my brethren, who was previously metropolitan, about great church and spiritual affairs, about everything: and yours, sent to us from you, we had your health, my son, told us; and hearing this from him, physically, and especially spiritually, we rejoiced; and to you, about the Holy Spirit of my son, I thank and bless you for everything, and according to my great saintly duty, I have for you, for my son, and for the future I want to have my great spiritual love for God. You might be interested in: