The Kremlin’s Pontifex Maximus
A loyal vassal to the East India companies based in the West, Peter the boy was given a pair of trousers by William of Orange and set about exercising power. Peter I, Pontifex Maximus of Rome III (Moscow) In Party pages we have seen that in 1686 a human holy father in Istanbul used his powers to transfer the title of Kyiv and all Rus to the Russian Patriarchate in Moscow while asserting t hat he ha d the paternal and spiritual authority to do so. Did he? Not many years thereafter, a round 1700, the Muscovite tsar, Peter I , blocked the election of a new patriarch, and in 1721 abolished the Russian Patriarchate using his own sole authority . Peter replac ed it with an office called the ‘holy synod’ of which he himself was the commander. A year later, in 1722, he also abolished all reference to the Kyivan M etropoli s , and this is how both the patriarchate of Russia and the metropolitan status of Kyiv came to an end, the entire enterprise completely uncontested by the ec...