Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. I, 1948 History & biography Historians, various biographies

Alexei Pleščeev

ALESSIO PLEŠČEJEV

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ALEXEI PLEŠČEEV. — Dissident metropolitan of Kiev and of all Russia from 1354 to 1378. He was one of the most celebrated metropolitans of the grand duchy of Moscow. In 1361 he succeeded in eliminating the Lithuanian metropolitanate, founded in 1354 by the Byzantine patriarch Philotheus, which threatened to divide the Russian Church in two. He held the regency of the principality of Moscow in place of the underage Demetrius and was a great friend of St. Sergius of Radonezh, the renewer of monasticism. A. founded in Moscow the monastery of St. Andronicus. The dissident Russians venerate A. as the second patron of the city of Moscow.

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BIBL.: A. M. Ammann, Storia della Chiesa russa, Turin 1948, pp. 82-135.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 822.

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Ammann, Alberto Maria. “Alessio PleŠČEjev.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 822. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/alessio-plescejev.

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Ammann, Alberto Maria. “Alessio PleŠČEjev.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 822. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/alessio-plescejev.

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  author    = {Ammann, Alberto Maria},
  title     = {Alessio PleŠČEjev},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {822},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/alessio-plescejev}
}

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