Orthodox Confession (Pravoslavnoe Ispovedanie)
Православное Исповедание Кафолической и Апостольской Церкви Восточной
Peter Mohyla (c. 1596–1646), Metropolitan of Kiev from 1632, was born into the aristocratic Romanian-Moldavian House of Movilești—his father Ieremia Movila was ruler of Moldavia. He directed the composition of this systematic Orthodox catechism, which was approved at the Synod of Jassy (1642), ratified by the four ancient patriarchates in 1642–1643, and formally published in 1645 in Greek, Latin, and Church Slavonic. The Synod of Jerusalem (1672) reaffirmed it as a standard Orthodox confession, giving it pan-Orthodox authority for over two centuries. Intended for the instruction of Orthodox clergy and nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, it also served as a foundational formation text for Russian ecclesiastical education after Peter the Great.