Founding of the Church
The Church is founded by Jesus Christ.
The Holy Apostolic See of Sts. Peter, Andrew, Stephen, and Mark of Rome-RutheniaСвятой Апостольский Престол Святых Петра, Андрея, Стефана и Марка Рима-Руси
Church · Apostolic Succession · Temporal Patrimony
Key events in the apostolic, ecclesiastical, liturgical, dynastic, and temporal history represented within the modern Roman-Ruthenian Church and Pontifical Imperial State.
The United Roman-Ruthenian Church is an autocephalous Apostolic Church—the Eastern Roman Church with Latin heritage—founded in AD 33 and continuing through unbroken Apostolic and jurisdictional succession. Its present united institutional form was consolidated in 2023 through the union of the former Anglican Patriarchate of Rome and the Gallo-Russo-Byzantine Catholicate.
This chronology brings together the principal milestones traditionally identified in the history of the Church, its apostolic successions, its liturgical development, and the temporal and dynastic inheritances represented within the Pontifical Imperial State.
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From the Church’s foundation in AD 33 through its continuing Apostolic and jurisdictional history
The Church is founded by Jesus Christ.
The See of Antioch is founded with St. Peter as its first Bishop. This is the establishment of the Syrian Church.
Establishment of the See of Rome with St. Peter as its first Bishop.
St. Andrew the First-Called visits Kiev, Mother City of Russia.
The See of Constantinople is ranked second to Rome.
The first Syrian Patriarch of the East, from which the Patriarchate of Babylon derived.
Establishment of the Patriarchate of the West under the Bishop of Rome.
Baptism of St. Olga, Equal-to-the-Apostles.
Establishment of the Kingdom of Italy in the Holy Roman Empire.
Baptism of St. Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles.
Roman the Great recognized as Tsar and Autocrat of All Rus'.
Danil Romanovich crowned King of Russia by authority of Pope Innocent IV of Rome.
St. Leo X becomes Pope-Bishop of Rome.
Establishment of the Patriarchate of Moscow and All Rus'.
Damian I becomes Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Mar Youssef VI Emmanuel II Thomas becomes Patriarch of Babylon (Syrian).
St. Aftimios is commissioned by the Russian Orthodox Church to found the American Orthodox Catholic Church.
Sergei is named Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'.
Founding of the Anglican Diocese of the Southwest, the First Chair of Rome-Ruthenia, later becoming the Diocese of Rome-Ruthenia.
St. Edwin Caudill, Apostolic Founder and Confessor, is consecrated in Orthodox and Old Catholic Apostolic Succession as Bishop of the Southwest.
The Diocese of the Southwest is reactivated, with the intent to use the Eastern Rite. The Anglican Rite is used due to the majority constituency at the time.
The Diocese of the Southwest is recognized as an independent Metropolitan See.
Cardinal Rutherford Johnson—now Pope Radislav I of Rome-Ruthenia—is elected Anglican Patriarch of the Anglican Patriarchate of Rome, and the See is recognized as a patriarchate.
The second attempt to use the Eastern/Russian Rite takes place, but is unsuccessful.
The papal title and office are formally conferred upon the Anglican Patriarch of Rome (now Pope Radislav I of Rome-Ruthenia), together with full papal authority within his own jurisdiction.
The Gallo-Russo-Byzantine Catholicate is established. The Gallican Rite of the Catholic Church is restored.
The Gallo-Russo-Byzantine and Anglican-Byzantine liturgy compilations are approved as the principal liturgy.
The constituent jurisdictions are administratively and institutionally united under the present structure of the United Roman-Ruthenian Church.
The succession reaches its completion and full public manifestation. The transitional designation Coadjutor of Rome is discontinued, and the designation Supreme Pontiff enters formal use.