Repose of Saint Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia

Peter was born in Volhynia in the second half of the 13th century and became a monk and an icon painter; he founded a monastery at Ratsk. In 1308 the patriarch of Constantinople consecrated him metropolitan of Kyiv and all Rus’. Opponents in Tver brought charges against him, but a council at Pereslavl about 1311 cleared him.

He grew close to the princes of Moscow and stayed there more and more. In 1326, with Prince Ivan Kalita, he laid the foundation of the stone Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin, and he died that same year on 21 December. He was buried in the cathedral, and his successors made Moscow the seat of the metropolitans.