The Russian Exarchate: A Eulogy

by Katherine Kelaidis

1,092 miles separate Constantinople and Moscow. The only two cities on earth ever to have served as capitals of Orthodox Christian empires are today the seats of the two most important, powerful, and (perhaps most significantly, in this image-driven age) visible Orthodox hierarchs: Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, and Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.

Katherine Kelaidis

A research associate at the Institute of Orthodox Christian studies, Cambridge, and a member of the Editorial Board of The Wheel. A former resident scholar at the National Hellenic Museum in Chicago. She is a professional historian, trained at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of London.

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