Lazar Baranovych or Baranovich ( uk, Лазар Баранович, russian: Лазарь Баранович, pl, Łazarz Baranowicz; 1620 – 3 (13) September 1693 in

Chernihiv Chernihiv ( uk, Черні́гів, , russian: Черни́гов, ; pl, Czernihów, ; la, Czernihovia), is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of Chernihiv Oblast and Chernihiv Raion within ...

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) was a Ruthenian

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of the

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and then of the

Early life

Ecclesiastical, political, and literary figure, professor (1650) and rector of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Career

He founded schools and monasteries. While he supported the incorporation of

left-bank Ukraine Left-bank Ukraine ( uk, Лівобережна Україна, translit=Livoberezhna Ukrayina; russian: Левобережная Украина, translit=Levoberezhnaya Ukraina; pl, Lewobrzeżna Ukraina) is a historic name of the part of Ukrain ...

into the

, he also defended the independence of the Kiev metropolis to the Patriarch of Moscow. He was the Bishop of

from 1657. In 1658, when the presence of Muscovite troops forced Metropolitan Balaban to move his episcopal seat to Chyhyryn, the government in Moscow appointed Baranovych in his place. In 1661, Metropolitan Pitirim, the vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow, ordained Methodius Fylymonovych as Bishop of

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. Fylymonovych was later appointed as Baranovych's vicar of the Metropolis of Kiev. In 1662,

Patriarch Nikon of Moscow Nikon ( ru , Ни́кон, Old Russian: ''Нїконъ''), born Nikita Minin (''Никита Минин''; 7 May 1605 – 17 August 1681) was the seventh Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' of the Russian Orthodox Church, serving officially from ...

cursed Metropolitan Pitirim for this act. The Patriarch of Constantinople also pronounced

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on Methodius. As a result, the Ukrainian clergy refused to obey the new vicar. This first attempt by Moscow to directly nominate a candidate for the throne in Kiev resulted in failure. In 1674 he established a printing house at the Monastery of Holy Transfiguration in Novhorod-Severskyi, which in 1679 was moved to

. In 1667, at a local Council in Moscow, a decision was made to elevate the Chernihiv diocese to an archdiocese with Lazar Baranovych as archbishop. However, since the decision was made without the consent of Constantinople, Patriarch

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did not recognize its legitimacy. Baranovych may have assumed the title of " Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia" or ''

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'' in pretence.

Publications

The publications of his sermons, written in a baroque style in

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language, include: * ''Mech dukhovny'' (The Spiritual Sword, 1666); and * ''Truby sloves propovidnykh'' (The Trumpets of Preaching Words, 1674). He is the author of several polemical works against Catholicism in Polish and

(see also Polemical literature); of a poetry collection in Polish, ''Lutnia Apollinowa'' (Apollo's Lute, 1671); and of a large correspondence. Among other things, ''Lutnia Apollinowa'' contains six epitaphs for Metropolitan

Peter Mohyla Metropolitan Petru Movilă ( ro, Petru Movilă, uk, Петро Симеонович Могила, translit=Petro Symeonovych Mohyla, russian: Пётр Симеонович Могила, translit=Pëtr Simeonovich Mogila, pl, Piotr Mohyła; ...

References

*
Baranovych, Lazar
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Encyclopedia of Ukraine
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* [in Ukrainian
Лазар Баранович, архієп. Нагробки митрополиту Петру Могилі
/ Переклад зі старопольської, вступна стаття та коментарі архім. Митрофана (Божка) // Труди Київської Духовної Академії. — №37. — К.: Київська духовна академія і семінарія, 2022. — С.140–147. {{DEFAULTSORT:Baranovych, Lazar Eastern Orthodox bishops of Kyiv 1693 deaths 17th-century Ukrainian people Year of birth unknown Baroque writers National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy alumni Academic staff of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Bishops of Chernihiv Metropolitans of Kiev and all Rus' (claimed or partially recognised)