Georges
Patriarch of Kyiv
About Georges
Lived 1050 – 1070 (aged 19–20). Georges was a metropolitan.
George (Георгий in Russian, died 1079) was an Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus', serving from 1069 to 1073.
George was the seventh Byzantine church leader in Kievan Rus, and he arrived to what is now Ukraine around 1062. George did not recognize the sanctity of the local martyrs, and four years after his appointment he returned to Byzantium.
Metropolitan George is credited as author of polemical work "Struggle against the Latina" (Stiazanie s latinoiu) in relation to the 1054 East–West Schism.
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Who was Georges?
Patriarch of Kyiv
When was Georges born?
Georges was born in 1050 in Byzantine Empire.
When did Georges die?
Georges died in 1070 in Kyiv.
What was Georges's occupation?
Georges was a metropolitan.
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