Cardinal Bessarion

Definition

Acceptance of papal primacy while retaining Eastern rite, associated in the text with Sophia Palaiologos (a Uniate pupil of Cardinal Bessarion) and with the Lithuanian metropolitanate; viewed as the chief spiritual threat to Moscow’s Orthodoxy.

Episodes

• 043 — History of the Russian Orthodox Church — Topic 6

Related Concepts

• Uniatism Florentine Union