Kyrylo Stavrovetsky-Tranquillon (died 1646) was a Ruthenian (Ukrainian) church figure of the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi- confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ...
, poet, publisher, archimandrite of the
Yelets Dormition Monastery 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 ...
. He is better known for his publishing efforts which provided Ruthenian citizens of the Commonwealth with literature in native language.
Biography

It is not known when Stavrovetsky was born. Sometime at the end of 1580s he taught at the Lviv Brotherhood School, after which in 1592 Stavrovetsky moved to
Ostrog and
Wilno
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due to persecutions against bishop
Hedeon Balaban
Hedeon (Hryhorii) Balaban (1530 – 10 February 1607), or Gedeon Bałaban, was the bishop of Lviv from 1569 to 1607.
Balaban was born in 1530. He took the side of the Eastern Orthodox church against the Polish Roman Catholics, in particular the ...
. In December 1592 along with Ternopil brethren, he vouched for the Lviv Brotherhood in front of
Jeremias II of Constantinople
Jeremias II Tranos (c. 1536 – 4 September 1595) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople three times between 1572 and 1595. Life
Jeremias Tranos was born in Anchialos, from an influential Greek family. The exact date of birth is not kno ...
. The fact is reflected in inscription over the entrance of the Ternopil Nativity Church.
In 1618 Stavrovetsky returned to
Pochaiv
Pochaiv ( uk, Почаїв, pl, Poczajów, yi, פּאטשאיעװ, Pitshayev) is a town in the Ternopil Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is located in the Kremenets Raion (district), and is located 18 km south-west of Kremenets and ...
and for a brief time was
hegumen
Hegumen, hegumenos, or igumen ( el, ἡγούμενος, trans. ), is the title for the head of a monastery in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, similar to the title of abbot. The head of a convent of nuns is called a hegumenia ...
at the small
Univ Dormition Monastery (1618). Later he was a hegumen (1618–19) at the Lubartow Monastery near
Lublin
Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of ...
. In 1621-25 Stavrovetsky was a preacher in
Zamość
Zamość (; yi, זאמאשטש, Zamoshtsh; la, Zamoscia) is a historical city in southeastern Poland. It is situated in the southern part of Lublin Voivodeship, about from Lublin, from Warsaw. In 2021, the population of Zamość was 62,021.
...
. In 1626 he adopted the
Union of Brest
The Union of Brest (; ; ; ) was the 1595–96 decision of the Ruthenian Orthodox Church eparchies (dioceses) in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to break relations with the Eastern Orthodox Church and to enter into communion with, and place ...
and from 1628 to his death he was an archimandrite of Yelets Dormition Monastery.
Known publications
* 1618 Mirror of Theology (''Zertsalo bohosloviia'')
* 1619
Didactic gospel
Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature, art, and design. In art, design, architecture, and landscape, didacticism is an emerging conceptual approach that is driven by the urgent need ...
(''Uchytelni yevanheliia'')
** In 1620s the congress of Ukrainian Orthodox bishops headed by the Exarch of Ukraine
Iov Boretsky
Job Boretsky ( uk, link=no, Йов, secular name Ivan Matfeyevich Boretsky, pl, link=no, Iwan Borecki, died 2 March 1631) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Ortho ...
condemned the book, while in 1627 the Moscow church authorities ordered that it be burnt.
* 1646 Priceless Perl (''Perlo mnohotsinnoie'')
External links
Kyrylo Stavrovetskyat the
Encyclopedia of Ukraine
The ''Encyclopedia of Ukraine'' ( uk, Енциклопедія українознавства, translit=Entsyklopediia ukrainoznavstva), published from 1984 to 2001, is a fundamental work of Ukrainian Studies.
Development
The work was crea ...
Poetry of Stavrovetskyat Izbornik
Kyrylo Stavrovetskyat the
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The ''Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary'' ( Russian: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона, abbr. ЭСБЕ, tr. ; 35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume ...
Kyrylo Stavrovetskyat the
Russian Biographical Dictionary
The ''Russian Biographical Dictionary'' (RBD, russian: Русский биографический словарь) is a Russian-language biographical dictionary published by the Russian Historian Society edited by a collective with Alexander Po ...
Year of birth unknown
1646 deaths
People from Rivne Oblast
People from Volhynian Voivodeship
Eastern Orthodox monks from Ukraine
Ukrainian Christian monks
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