Cassian Sakowicz, also known as Kasjan Sakowicz, (1578, Podteliszu near

Lubaczów Lubaczów ( uk, Любачів ''Liubachiv'') is a town in southeastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine, with 12,567 inhabitants Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), it is the capital of Lubaczów County and is locate ...

– 1647, Krakow) was a Polish-Ruthenian (Ukrainian) Orthodox activist and, later, a Catholic

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, writer, and

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Biography

Cassian Sakowicz was born in family of an Orthodox priest as Kalikst Isakowicz. He was born in a town of PodteliszDzyuba, O.
Cassian Sakowicz (САКОВИЧ КАСІЯН)
'. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. (today village Potelych,

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(Palatinatus Belzensis). He finished the

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and Jagiellonian University at the ruler's court in Przemysl, under King Athanasius' protection. Sakowicz was a private teacher of

Adam Kisiel Adam Kisiel also Adam Kysil, ( pl, Adam Kisiel ; 1580 or 1600-1653) was a Ruthenian nobleman, the Voivode of Kyiv (1649-1653) and castellan or voivode of Czernihów (1639-1646). Kisiel has become better known for his mediation during the Khmeln ...

and an activist of the Enlightenment movement of

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. Sakowicz was the rector of the

school in

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(predecessor of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) from 1620 to 1624 where he taught poetry, rhetoric and philosophy. In 1624, he moved to

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where he was preaching in an Eastern orthodox brotherhood church. Later Sakowicz entwined his life first with the

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in 1625 converted to

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(in 1625 to 1639, he was an Uniate archimandrite of the Savior-Transfiguration Monastery in

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). In 1641, after arriving to Krakow in 1640 and with the permission of

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, he changed to the

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and was the chaplain of the Augustinian monastery of Saint Catherine in Krakow. Sakowicz died in 1647. Sakowicz is an author of the 1622 "poems for mourning funeral of the noble knight Petro Konashevych Sahaidachny" that were read by students of the Kyiv brotherhood school at the 1622 funeral of Hetman

Petro Konashevych Sahaidachny Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny ( uk, Петро Конашевич-Сагайдачний; pl, Piotr Konaszewicz-Sahajdaczny; born about 1582 in Kulchytsi, today Sambir Raion – 20 April 1622 in Kyiv) was a Ukrainian Cossack political and ...

Works

Sakowicz was the author of many poems, theological treaties, and political treaties. His preferred writing languages were

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and

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.Енциклопедія українознавства, т. 7, Львів 1998, с. 2,692.

References

External links

* * http://www.nbuv.gov.ua/portal/Soc_Gum/dkz/2011_14-15/12.pdf * * (in Ukrainian) Cassian Sakowicz.
Poems for mourning funeral of the noble knight Petro Konashevych Sahaidachny(ВІРШІ НА ЖАЛІСНИЙ ПОГРЕБ ШЛЯХЕТНОГО РИЦАРЯ ПЕТРА КОНАШЕВИЧА-САГАЙДАЧНОГО,)
litopys.org.ua. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sakowicz, Cassian Converts to Eastern Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy Converts to Roman Catholicism from Eastern Catholicism 1578 births 1647 deaths People from Lviv Oblast People from Ruthenian Voivodeship Polish poets Ruthenian-language writers