Isidore of Kiev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Isidore of Kiev

Catholic cardinal

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Monemvasia, Peloponnese Region, Greece

Date of Death: 27-Apr-1463

Profession: diplomat, Catholic priest, theologian, prisoner

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Isidore of Kiev, also known as Isidore of Thessalonica (Greek: ?s?d???? t?? ???ß??; Russian: ??????; Ukrainian: ??????; b.
Peloponnesus, 1385 – d.Rome, 27 April 1463) was a Byzantine Greek Metropolitan of Kiev, cardinal, humanist, and theologian.
He was one of the chief Eastern defenders of reunion at the time of the Council of Florence.Isidore became the last hierarch of the Old Russian Church before it split into the Russian Eastern Orthodox Church of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and Ruthenian Eastern Orthodox Church of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Following his arrest, the Grand Duke Vasily II of Moscow initiated a schism by installing Metropolitans in Moscow without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.