The spiritual authority of the Metropolitan of Kyiv extended to all dioceses that were formed on the lands of Kyivan Rus. On the eve of the Mongol-Tatar invasion there were 16 of them: Kyiv (988), Chernihiv (991), Belgorod (991), Vladimir (992), Novgorod (992), Rostov (992), Polatsk (992), Turiv (1005), Przemyśl (1026), Pereiaslav (1036), Yurii (1036), Galician (1134), Smolensk (1137), Riazan (1198), Suzdal (1213).