Gedeon Brolnitskyj (

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: Gedeon Brolnicki; 1528–1618) was a bishop of the

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and a monk belonged to the Lauryshava Monastery and since 1601 Archbishop of

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Biography

In 1596 Brolnitskyj was an Orthodox

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of the Lauryshava Monastery (in today's Belarus) and converted from Orthodoxy to

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, signing an act of the

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. On May 26, 1601 Gideon Brolicki was nominated Archbishop of Polotsk. Blazheyovsky D. Hierarchy of the Kievan Church (861-1996). - Lviv: Kamenyar, 1996. - P. 281.] On August 6, 1601, he was ordained bishop and remained as Catholic Uniate bishop till his death in 1618.

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* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbroln.html {{Uniate Bishops of Polotsk Eparchy 1528 births 1618 deaths Archimandrites People from Polotsk Converts to Eastern Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy Former Belarusian Orthodox Christians Archbishops of Polotsk (Ruthenian Uniate Church) 16th-century Eastern Orthodox bishops