Abstract

The Connection of the Russian autocephalous Church with Rome and Constantinople in the Mirror of the Theory of Moscow the third Rome ””. XIV XVI.) In 1448 the Russian Orthodox Church became de fac to autocephalous. The metropolia, later patriarchate of Moscow never wanted to question the universal position of Constantinople within Orthodoxy. for two Romes had fallen, but the third one is standing and there will be no fourth. The Theory of Moscow the third Rome formulated by the monk Filofei, claiming that Moscow had become the third and last centre and refuge of true Christianity.

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