🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Sterling medallion id?

[mountainman 2]

Help in identifying this medallion bought at a garage sale. It is 1.800 in diameter and .075 thick. It is stamped .925. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

 

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[Kray Gelder]

Very cool. Looks Russian maybe? We have a few Russians here, maybe they'll help out.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Pretty sure that is St. Nicholas.

 

[ARC]

Its in Russian... was made in / from Milan Rome...
Metropolitan Joseph Slipyy... 25 years of consecration by the Pope MEDA commemerative.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

ARC nailed it the pictures match up.

 

[Mackaydon]

It has been over 60 years since I took religious courses in school. If my memory still serves me correctly, I'd say the staff being held in the left hand is called a crozier; and this is only held -- not by popes--but by bishops of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and European Lutheran faiths.
Doing some research, I found this: "Bishops of the Eastern churches carry the baktēria (dikanikion), a pastoral staff with either a tau cross or two serpents facing each other on top" (like the OP's). And since the Russian and Ukrainian languages are so closely related, I guess the image as showing a bishop from either Russia or the Ukraine.
Don.......

 

[Mackaydon]

The image could still be that of Josyf Slipyj --as a bishop.
Don.......

 

[Red-Coat]

The image could still be that of Josyf Slipyj --as a bishop.
Don.......

 

[mountainman 2]

Thank you all👍