Encyclical to the Eastern Patriarchs

Name: Encyclical to the Eastern Patriarchs
Author: Photius I of Constantinople

Photius I of Constantinople · 867 · Eastern Orthodox · original-public-domain

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First baptism of the Rus' 867

Photius' district letter of 867: among its notices, the Rhos 'have accepted a bishop and pastor' — the earliest witness to a baptism among the Rus', a century before Volodymyr.