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Dionysius Balaban
Dionysius Balaban-Tukalskyi (; ? – 10 May 1663, in Chyhyryn) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Orthodox Church from 1657 to 1663. Biography He came from an old noble family from Volhynia. He was known as a religious and political leader. He was a defender of the rights of the metropolis against the attempts of its liquidation by the Patriarchate of Moscow. Balaban studied at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. He was a bishop of Kholm (1650–1652), Lutsk (1655) and later the Metropolitan of Kyiv (1657–1663). In 1658 Balaban was forced to relocate his see to Chyhyryn due to occupation of Kyiv by the Muscovite troops. At the same time his place in Kyiv was kept (locum tenens) by the bishop of Chernihiv Lazar Baranovych. Metropolitan Balaban supported the policies of Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky and was a co-author of the 1658 Treaty of Hadiach The Treaty of Hadiach (; ) was a treaty signed on 16 September 165 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecumenical Patriarchate Of Constantinople
The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (, ; ; , "Roman Orthodox Patriarchate, Ecumenical Patriarchate of Istanbul") is one of the fifteen to seventeen autocephalous churches that together compose the Eastern Orthodox Church. It is headed by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. Because of its historical location as the capital of the former Eastern Roman Empire and its role as the mother church of most modern Eastern Orthodox churches, Constantinople holds a special place of honor within Eastern Orthodox Christianity and serves as the seat for the Ecumenical Patriarch, who enjoys the status of '' primus inter pares'' (first among equals) among the world's Eastern Orthodox prelates and is regarded as the representative and spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians. Phanar (Turkish: '' Fener''), the name of the neighbourhood where ecumenical patriarch resides, is often used as a metaphor or shorthand for the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. The E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National University Of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
The National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy ( NaUKMA, ), colloquially known as Mohylianka (), is a highly ranked national state-sponsored research university located in a historic section of Kyiv, Ukraine. The university is bilingual in Ukrainian and English and is one of Ukraine's few universities with internationally recognized diplomas. NaUKMA takes part in numerous international university collaborations, such as the European University Association. With around 4000 students, NaUKMA is one of the smallest universities in Ukraine. The university takes its name from the institution cited as its main predecessor, the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy established in 1615 and operating until 1819. The NaUKMA is located on that Academy's grounds in the ancient Podil neighborhood. In 1991, the modern university was organized, and teaching began the following year. Alumni of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy played a formative role in the intellectual and church life of Ukraine and Russia in 17th a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruthenian Nobility Of The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
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Eastern Orthodox Bishops Of Lutsk
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Metropolitans Of Kiev, Galicia And All Rus' (1620-1686)
Metropolitans may refer to: Sports *New York Metropolitans (1880–1887), a defunct Major League New Baseball team *New York Mets (1962–present), a Major League Baseball team *Seattle Metropolitans (1915–1924), a Seattle ice hockey team *Bydgoszcz–Toruń Metropolitans (BiT Mets) (2012–present), a Bydgoszcz-Toruń bi-polar agglomeration American football reserve team of Angels Toruń and Bydgoszcz Archers *Metropolitans 92, a basketball team currently playing in France's top men's division, LNB Pro A Other uses * Metropolia, or metropolis, Christian term for the jurisdiction under a Metropolitan bishop In Christianity, Christian Christian denomination, churches with episcopal polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan (alternative obsolete form: metropolite), is held by the diocesan bishop or archbishop of a Metropolis (reli ..., who might also be known as a Metropolitan. See also * Metropolitan (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gedeon Chetvertinsky
Gedeon Chetvertinsky (, secular name Grigory Zakharovich Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky, ) was a Ruthenian prince and hierarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church, who accepted allegiance to Moscow. In 1685, he was appointed by the Patriarch of Moscow to the rank of " Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia", a title he held through 1690. The appointment was on the recommendation of the Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host — Ivan Samoylovych. Gedeon was born as Hryhoriy to the starosta of Racibórz Zachary Svyatopolk-Chetvertynsky and Regina Chrenicka in Volhynian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. From 1660 to 1684, he was a bishop of Lutsk and Ostroh in Volhynia (today Volyn diocese). In October 1685, he went to Moscow to be installed formally in the metropolis by Patriarch Joachim of Moscow. His decision to accept his installation from the Patriarchate of Moscow undermined the independence of the Orthodox Church in those parts of the Ruthenia lands that lay in the Polish-L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athanasius Puzyna
Athanasius I of Alexandria ( – 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great, Athanasius the Confessor, or, among Coptic Christians, Athanasius the Apostolic, was a Christian theologian and the 20th patriarch of Alexandria (as Athanasius I). His intermittent episcopacy spanned 45 years ( – 2 May 373), of which over 17 encompassed five exiles, when he was replaced on the order of four different Roman emperors. Athanasius was a Church Father, the chief proponent of Trinitarianism against Arianism, and a noted Egyptian Christian leader of the fourth century. Conflict with Arius and Arianism, as well as with successive Roman emperors, shaped Athanasius' career. In 325, at age 27, Athanasius began his leading role against the Arians as a deacon and assistant to Bishop Alexander of Alexandria during the First Council of Nicaea. Roman Emperor Constantine the Great had convened the council in May–August 325 to address the Arian position that the Son of God, Jesus of Nazareth, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Tukalskyi-Nelyubovych
Joseph Tukalskyi-Nelyubovych, (; born Nenkovychi or Mutvytsia, Brest Litovsk Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, died 26 July 1675, Chyhyryn) was a political and religious leader of the Cossack Hetmanate and the last Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galicia and all Rus in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Biography Joseph Tukalskyi was born in a family of Eastern Orthodox nobility (szlachta) from Pinsk region ( Polesye). He began his monastic life at a young age. He received tonsure in the Lishchyna monastery, which was quite famous at the time. And from 1654 he became its archimandrite. For almost four years, from 1657 to 1661, Joseph Tukalskyi-Nelyubovych was the hegumen of the Vilnius Holy Spirit Monastery. He was elected and ordained to the Mstislav, Mogilev and Orsha see by his predecessor Metropolitan Dionysius Balaban Tukalskyiof Kyiv, who in addition to that was a relative of Joseph Nelyubovych-Tukalsky. Having just ascended the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaniv Monastery
Kaniv (, ) is a city in Cherkasy Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, central Ukraine. The city rests on the Dnieper River, and is one of the main inland river ports on the Dnieper. It is an urban hromada of Ukraine. Population: Kaniv is a historical town that was founded in the 11th century by Kievan prince Yaroslav the Wise. The city is known today mostly for the burial site of Taras Shevchenko, the great Ukrainian poet and artist. Picturesque and ancient, Kaniv was once one of the largest cities of Kievan Rus'. At that time, it was an outpost used for diplomatic meetings between Ruthenian princes and ambassadors of militant tribes. Later, in the 18th century, it became a popular destination for elderly Cossacks, who wanted to live out their days on the banks of the great Dnieper River, and on the Chernecha Mountain, where, according to legend, a monastery stood in the past. The mountain remains one of Kaniv's most important places, attracting thousands of tourists to the city. Today it i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuriy Khmelnytskyi
Yurii Khmelnytsky ((monastic name: Hedeon), , , ) (1641 – 1685(?)), younger son of the famous Ukrainian Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and brother of Tymofiy Khmelnytsky, was a Zaporozhian Cossack political and military leader. Although he spent half of his adult life as a monk and archimandrite, he also was Hetman of Ukraine on several occasions — in 1659-1660 and 1678–1681 and starost of Hadiach, becoming one of the most well-known Ukrainian politicians of the "Ruin" period for the Cossack Hetmanate. Biography Hetman of Ukraine Yurii Khmelnytsky was born in 1641 in Subotiv near Chyhyryn in central Ukraine. In 1659, the Cossack Rada elected the 17-year-old Yurii as their hetman in Bila Tserkva, replacing the deposed Ivan Vyhovsky. The young hetman faced problems: the uneasy alliance with the Tsardom of Russia and the ongoing wars against Poland–Lithuania and against the Crimean Khanate. During the conflict against Poland–Lithuania, Yurii Khmelntsky's Cossacks were defe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treaty Of Hadiach
The Treaty of Hadiach (; ) was a treaty signed on 16 September 1658 in Hadiach (present-day Ukraine) between representatives of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ( representing Poland and representing Lithuania) and Zaporozhian Cossacks (represented by Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky and starshina Yuri Nemyrych, the architect of the treaty, and Pavlo Teteria). It was designed to elevate the Cossacks and Ruthenians to a position equal to that of Poland and Lithuania in the Polish–Lithuanian union and in fact transforming the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth into a Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth (, , , ). Background A way to establish a Grand Principality of Rus' (1658), Grand Principality of Ruthenia was considered by the Ukrainian Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host, hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky at various times, particularly during the 1648 Zaporozhian Cossacks, Cossack insurrection against Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish rule in the mainly ethnically-Ukrainians, Ukrain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Vyhovsky
Ivan Vyhovsky (; ; date of birth unknown, died 1664), a Ukrainian military and political figure and statesman, served as hetman of the Zaporizhian Host and of the Cossack Hetmanate for three years (1657–1659) during the Russo-Polish War (1654–1667). He succeeded the famous hetman and rebel leader Bohdan Khmelnytsky (see Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks). His time as hetman was characterized by his generally pro- Polish policies, which led to his defeat by pro-Russian elements among the Cossacks. Vyhovsky belonged to the Orthodox noble family of the Vyhovsky coat of arms Abdank. Origin and family Vyhovsky was born in his family estate of Vyhiv, near Ovruch in the Kyiv Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, a son of Ostap Vyhovsky, a vicegerent of the Kyiv fortress under voivode Adam Kisiel and an Orthodox nobleman from the Kyiv region. There is also a possibility that the birth occurred at another family estate, Hoholiv, located near Kyiv (now Brovary Raion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
