Gedeon Chetvertinsky
Mitropolitan Gedeon, portrait 17th century
Gedeon Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky (Ukrainian: Гедеон (Святополк-Четвертинський), Hedeon (Svyatopolk-Chetvertynskyi)) was a Ruthenian prince and religious figure and Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus'. He became the first Metropolitan of Kiev of the Russian Orthodox Church with help of the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host Ivan Samoylovych.
Gedeon was born as Hryhoriy to 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).
Gallery[]
Gedeon's mitre, 1685 (Historical museum, Moscow)
See also[]
External links[]
- Kramar, O. Patriarch-raider. The Ukrainian Week. 11 February 2011.
- Gedeon at the Orthodox Encyclopedia
- Also known as Hedeon at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
Categories:
- 1634 births
- 1690 deaths
- People from Manevychi Raion
- People from Volhynian Voivodeship
- Metropolitans of Kiev and all Rus'
- First Hierarchs of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
- Czetwertyński
- Eastern Orthodox bishops of Lutsk
- Orthodox bishops of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth