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TheCouncil of Vladimir (Russian:Владимирский собор) was aChurch council of theRussian Orthodox Church, held at the initiative ofMetropolitan Kirill II in 1274 in the city ofVladimir.
In the wake of the Mongol conquest of Rus’, Kirill was appointed Metropolitan of Kiev. In 1270, he sent a request to the Bulgarian despotIakob Svetoslav to send books of canon law (Kormchaia kniga) with interpretations. A translation from Greek into Old Church Slavic had been made in 1225 in Serbia, but Kirill called the council to resolve differences in canon law.
The council that a new Kormchaia should be compiled.
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