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The article analyzes the latest scientific data on the sources of the ideology "Moscow - Third Rome". It was found that the propagation of these ideas was a consequence not only of the eschatological Platonism of the Orthodox historiosophy, but also the result of the rethinking of the theories from the epistle of the Ecumenical Patriarch Anthony IV of Great Patriarch IV, Grand Prince Vasily I., in 1393. This message reflects a certain distortion of the classical Byzantine theory of relations between the state and the church. The very ideas of this message became a catalyst for the formation of medieval imperial theories of Moscow as the third Rome. As a result of the study, it was found that the ideology “Moscow - Third Rome” is developing as a curvature of some Byzantine and Kiev-Russian concepts. The destruction of the context that the ideas of Rome had in the theories of the emperor Justinian or Hilarion of Kiev, the transfer of emphasis from content to form, highlighting one's own discourse as absolute values, leads to emasculating the ideas of historical responsibility for the embodiment of Christian and civilizational values. For further research, the important question remains, to what extent was the idea of “Moscow - the Third Rome” a part of the ideological foundation of colonialism? The article focuses on the fact that the concept of “Moscow - the Third Rome” had and still has different meanings depending on its use in a religious, imperial or nationalistic sense. But it is justified that successful scientific deconstruction of the ideology “Moscow - Third Rome” is possible only within the framework of the anti-colonial discourse. Ukrainian religious science can and should deconstruct this ideology

theology of history, the idea of empire, religious ideology, state-church relations