Nicholas of Kiev

Nicholas was metropolitan of Kyiv and all Rus, of Greek origin, from 1097 or 1092 to 1104. He is called a wonderworker of Kyiv. Our sources show no act of canonization and no day of commemoration.

His name is mentioned only in two chronicle accounts. At the insistence of the nobles and townspeople of Kyiv, in November 1097 Nicholas acted as mediator, with the widow of Prince Vsevolod of Kyiv, between the warring princes, which shows a link of the metropolitan with the public and political life of Rus. In the summer of 1101 he appears again as a champion of peace among them.

A Ukrainian source tells in more detail that in 1097 he interceded for Prince Sviatopolk Izyaslavich of Kyiv, against whom Prince Volodymyr Monomakh of Pereyaslav rose, after the blinding of Prince Vasilko Rostislavich of Terebovlia by Sviatopolk and by Prince David Igorevich of Volhynia. In 1101 he interceded for Prince Yaroslav Yaropolchich of Brest, seized by order of his uncle, Prince Sviatopolk of Kyiv.

In 1102 he was recalled to Greece. He died in 1104. The sources do not agree on the start of his pastorate: some say 1097, others 1092.