George (Георгий in Russian, died 1079) was an Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus', ^[1] serving from 1069 ^[2] to 1073. ^[3]

George was the seventh Byzantine church leader in Kievan Rus, ^[1] and he arrived to what is now Ukraine around 1062. ^[1] George did not recognize the sanctity of the local martyrs, and four years after his appointment he returned to Byzantium. ^[2]

Metropolitan George is attributed as author of polemical work "Struggle against the Latina" (Stiazanie s latinoiu) ^{[1] [3]} in relation to the 1054 East–West Schism.

See also

• Theological differences between the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church

References

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