Your Beatitudes Patriarchs of the Ancient Sees Except Rome His BeatitudeTHEOPHILOS IIIPatriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine His BeatitudeIGNATIUS

At the request and invitation of Tsar Vladimir and his wife Olga, clerics were sent from Constantinople on the bank of the Dnieper River in the city of Kiev, Ukraine, and they were baptized en masse.