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Hierarch · 15th century

Saint Photius Metropolitan of Kiev

Also known as Photius of Kiev

A Greek of Monemvasia who from his youth embraced the monastic life and was called to be metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia, shepherding the Church through years of division and strife.

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Notes

Not St Photius the Great of Constantinople (OS-0603).

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints