The election of bishops in Rus': canons and practice (XII - the first third of the XV-th century)
The article focuses on the relation of church canons and practice of electing bishops. Special attention is paid to the models of episcopal election that existed in different regions of Russia. The author shows that periodic appearance of collections of church canons and Byzantine legislation on church in Russia, claiming the personal right of metropolitan to elect bishops, became a kind of struggle of metropolitans for the canonicity and purity of church practice, and for the unity of the Kiev Metropolis.