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Which version of Christianity was practiced in the Kievan Rus?
Roman Catholicism
Eastern Orthodoxy
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Eastern Orthodoxy.
In 988 Prince Vladimir the Great adopted Byzantine (Eastern Orthodox) Christianity for Kievan Rus, receiving baptism and importing clergy, liturgy, and church organization from Constantinople. This shaped law, art, literacy (Old Church Slavonic/Cyrillic) and long-term cultural ties to Byzantium. (Western/Catholic influence appeared only later in some western border regions under Polish/Lithuanian rule.)
In 988 Prince Vladimir the Great adopted Byzantine (Eastern Orthodox) Christianity for Kievan Rus, receiving baptism and importing clergy, liturgy, and church organization from Constantinople. This shaped law, art, literacy (Old Church Slavonic/Cyrillic) and long-term cultural ties to Byzantium. (Western/Catholic influence appeared only later in some western border regions under Polish/Lithuanian rule.)
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