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 1 2|       priest sent by Feognost, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Russia,
 2 2|      beer. Aleksei, the future metropolitan, who at this time had not
 3 2|       he led and commanded the Metropolitan Theognost to ordain him
 4 3|      the bishop." Aleksei, the Metropolitan of all Russia, was living
 5 5|     elder went then to see the metropolitan, Aleksei and took with him
 6 5| brought from the patriarch The metropolitan ordered the epistle to be
 7 5|      The elder inquired of the metropolitan, "Revered teacher, what
 8 5|     would you have us do?" The metropolitan replied, "With all our heart
 9 6|        of his followers to the Metropolitan Aleksei, with the request
10 6|  spiritual father, went to the metropolitan and said: "Holy Lord, we
11 6|        grief without him." The metropolitan dispatched two archimandrites,
12 6|       Your father, Aleksei the Metropolitan, sends you his blessing.
13 6|       reply, "Tell my lord the metropolitan, all from his lips, as from
14 6|       disobey in nothing." The metropolitan, glad at his prompt obedience,
15 6| monastery, and sent him to the metropolitan to be raised to the priesthood.
16 8|     and a blessing to all. The Metropolitan Aleksei, being old, and
17 8|      While they conversed, t e metropolitan asked to have the cross
18 8|     monastery. Before long the Metropolitan Aleksei left this life,