The Russian Church canonized him in 1988 AD on the occasion of the millennium feast of the Baptism of the Russian people. He is rightly considered one of the most prominent creators of the spiritual renaissance [...]
He was the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia between 1917 and 1925. The position of patriarch was suspended by Tsar Peter the Great in the eighth century
His first episcopal ministry was in Murom, one of the oldest Russian cities. Since he was walking in a chaste life, there is no doubt about him
The Orthodox Church commemorates the Russian Saint Andrei Rublev, the icon painter, or icon writer, as some like to say, on the Fourth.
