Metropolitan Simon

Definition

Councils convened by the metropolitan (1490, 1503, 1504, 1509, 1525, 1531) to settle heresy, discipline, widowed priests, ordination fees and property questions — though the text notes the councils’ subservience to princely will.

Episodes

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

Related Concepts

• Conciliarity Sobor As Church Governance