Lazar Baranovych

Lazar Baranovych or Baranovich (Russian: Лазарь Баранович, Ukrainian: Лазар Баранович, Polish: Łazarz Baranowicz; 1620 – 3 (13) September 1693 in Chernihiv, Tsardom of Russia) was a Ruthenian Eastern Orthodox archbishop of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and then of the Tsardom of Russia. Ecclesiastical, political, and literary figure, professor (1650) and rector of the Kievan Mohyla College, bishop and archbishop of Chernihiv from 1657. He founded schools and monasteries. In 1674 he established a printing house at the Monastery of Holy Transfiguration in Novhorod-Severskyi, which in 1679 was moved to Chernihiv.

Baranovych supported the incorporation of the Left-bank Ukraine into the Tsardom of Russia, but at the same time he defended the independence of the Kyiv metropolis to the patriarch of Moscow.

The publications of his sermons, written in a baroque style in Church Slavonic language, include:

• Mech dukhovny (The Spiritual Sword, 1666); and
• Truby sloves propovidnykh (The Trumpets of Preaching Words, 1674).

He is the author of several polemical works against Catholicism in Polish and Church Slavonic (see also ); of a poetry collection in Polish, Lutnia Apollinowa (Apollo's Lute, 1671); and of a large correspondence.

References[]

• Baranovych, Lazar at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
• Лазар Баранович