The metropolitan appointed by me is an image of God, and is my representative, so that anyone who is submissive to him...is actually submissive to God and to Our Humility.
--Patriarch Philotheus of Constantinople, to those wild men in the outer reaches of Russia in 1370.
Quoted in Robert Crummey, The Formation of Muscovy 1304-1613, 47 (1987)
Quoted in Robert Crummey, The Formation of Muscovy 1304-1613, 47 (1987)
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