Michael I of Kyiv

Ukrainian priest

b. 10th century · d. 15 Jun 992

1st Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Rus' · c. 988–c. 992

Offices

Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Rus' № 1 · c. 988 – c. 992

Metropolitan Michael I of Kiev is considered to be the first Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus' from 988 until his death. He was canonised as a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church, being commemorated with a feast day on 15 June and 30 September.

Commemorated

Michael I of Kyiv

Places

Bulgaria birth
Syria birth
Kyiv Pechersk Lavra burial
Kyiv death

How we know

Recorded as a historical figure.

Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus I, coll. 1261-1262 — IX. Provincia Russiae, Ecclesia Kioviae, Metropolis; EPISCOPI, no. I. MICHAEL

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