Saint Dimitry of Rostov (sometimes Latinized as Demetrius sometimes referred to simply as Dmitri Rostovsky Russian: Димитрий Ростовский) was a leading opponent of the Caesaropapist reform of the Russian Orthodox church promoted by Feofan Prokopovich. He is representative of the strong Ukrainian influence upon the Russian Orthodox Church at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries.
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