List of Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Kyiv

This list contains the names of all the Eastern Orthodox hierarchs whose title contains a reference to the city of Kyiv (Kiev), arranged chronologically and grouped as per the jurisdictions, some of them unrecognised.

History

The history of the Russian (Ruthenian) Orthodox Church is usually traced to the Baptism of Rus' at Kyiv, the date of which is commonly given as 988; however, the evidence surrounding this event is contested (see Christianisation of Kievan Rus').

It is not certainly known when exactly the Metropolis of Kyiv was established.[1] Since the foundation of the church its hierarch held a title Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Rus with his episcopal see located in the city of Kyiv (or possibly Tmutarakan).[1] The church was created as part of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. There is an evidence that the first bishop might have been dispatched to Kyiv in 864 by the Patriarch of Constantinople Photios I before the official Christianization of 988.[1] It happened after Kyiv was captured by Varangians in 860.[1] It is also apparent that Prince of Kyiv Askold might have been baptized due to the fact that there exist the Saint Nicholas Church at the Askold's Grave.[1] During a rule of Prince Igor of Kiev, in Kyiv existed the Saint Elijah Church,[1] while during signing the 944 treaty with the Greeks some Ruthenians took an oath on the Bible.[1]

The earliest metropolitan bishop whose name is known is Michael of Kiev.

Following the Mongol invasion and the 1240 sack of Kyiv by Batu Khan communications between Kyiv and Constantinople deteriorated. On the demand of the Golden Horde the newly appointed Kirill III of Kiev had to govern from the city of Vladimir, yet the official transfer of the episcopal see did not occur until 1299. Despite having to govern the church from Vladimir and later Moscow, hierarchs continued to be called Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Rus. Grand Princes of Vladimir and later Moscow controlled Kyiv on the permission of the Khan of the Golden Horde.

Two other successor states of the Kievan Rus', Kingdom of Rus and Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Ruthenia and Samogotia that controlled portions of territory of former Rus demanded to establish separate dioceses independent from Moscow. Sometimes their demands were approved, other times former eparchies were returned under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Rus. During the 14th century the church was de facto split in two or three. The Great Duchy of Moscow completely lost control of Kyiv in the mid 14th century.

Starting from the 15th century, the church was finally reunited and continued to be governed from Moscow by the Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Rus, despite being located in a neighboring country. During that time in the Holy Roman Empire the Council of Florence took place as a political and religious forum. Though resisting at first, the Great Prince of Moscow allowed the Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Rus Isidore of Kiev to attend it. Isidore who was of Greek origin went forward to sign the Florentine Union uniting the Russian Orthodox Church with the Latin Church. The Great Prince of Moscow voided the union and placed Isidore in prison for sometime. Following that incident, the next Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Rus Jonah who was not approved by the Constantinople Patriarch changed his title to Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus in 1448. Since then and until 1589, no hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow were approved by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople declaring their complete autocephaly.

Notwithstanding, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople continued to appoint his metropolitans for dioceses of the Ruthenian Orthodox Church[2][3][4] in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The next hierarch of the Ruthenian Orthodox Church[2][3] in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Gregory the Bulgarian was originally consecrated by a Latin Patriarch of Constantinople and received a title of Metropolitan of Kyiv, Halych and all Ruthenia. Later his appointed was also approved by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as well. The episcopal see of the new hierarch was located in Vilnius, Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

In 1588–1589 Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Jeremias II of Constantinople when traveling across the Eastern Europe, visited both Moscow and Vilnius. In Moscow Jeremias confirmed autocephaly of the Russian Orthodox Church and for the first time since 1448 consecrated Job of Moscow as the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia. Later Jeremias stopped in Vilnius and consecrated Michael Rohoza as Metropolitan of Kyiv, Halych and all Ruthenia, thus again confirming division of the former Russian Orthodox Church. Soon thereafter, in 1596 the Metropolitan of Kyiv and other top clergymen of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth signed the Union of Brest turning the Russian (Ruthenian) Orthodox Church under jurisdiction of the Latin Church and converting to the Ruthenian Uniate Church.

As the previous Florentine union, the Union of Brest was not accepted by all orthodox clergymen causing some eparchies (dioceses) to continue their operations as Eastern Orthodox. In 1620 the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophanes consecrated Job as the new Metropolitan of Kyiv, Halych and all Ruthenia and Exarch of Ukraine. This appointment revitalized Eastern Orthodox churches and deepened the schism. On the other hand, the episcopal see was returned to Kyiv for the first time since 1299. In 1646 last remnants of the Russian Orthodox Church in Carpathian region joined the Union of Uzhhorod and converted into the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church. At the same time, the eastern territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth which today part of Belarus and Ukraine entered a great turmoil and eventually were occupied by the Tsardom of Muscovy. Soon after occupation of Ukraine (Cossack Hetmanate), in 1685 the Ruthenian Orthodox Church was transferred from under jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople to under jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Moscow. The newly appointed metropolitan Gedeon was titled as Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galich and all Little Rus. This transfer successfully terminated any remnants of the original Russian Orthodox Church centered in Kyiv.

Orthodox Church of Rus'

The church (Ancient Greek: Ρωσική Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία, Rhosike Orthodoxe Ekklesia) was established and governed by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in Kievan Rus' until the invasion of the Mogols of the Golden Horde and the eventual partition of Rus' between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Kingdom of Hungary, and the Ulus of Jochi (Golden Horde) with its vassal Grand Duchy of Moscow. At first it led to a succession of Muscovite dioceses into its own Metropolis and although it was not recognized in the beginning eventually it turned into Patriarchate. Later the dioceses that were under the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were reorganized within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and as part of the Polonization process eventually joined the Union of Brest coming under communion with the Pope of Rome. The Eparchy of Mukačevo that was under the Kingdom of Hungary became one of the longest surviving dioceses of Eastern Orthodoxy in the west until it also was Catholicized though the Union of Uzhhorod.

Metropolitans of Kiev and all Rus'

Metropolitan of Kyiv
Metropolitan Hilarion (1051–1054)
Residence	Saint Sophia's Cathedral
Seat	Kyiv, Ruthenia
Appointer	Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Formation	988
First holder	Michael I
Final holder	Maximus
Abolished	1299
Succession	Metropolitan of Kyiv and Moscow (Vladimir)

• "Michael I and Leontius", 988(?)–1004(?) [5][6]
• Theophylact, 988–1018[6]
• John, 1008(?)–1017(?) [7][6]
• Teopempt 1037(?)–1043(?) [7][6]
• "Cyril" (information about him appeared only no earlier than the 16th century)[6]
• Hilarion 1051–(?) [8][6]
• Ephraim, 1055(?)–(?) [9][6]
• George, 1072(?)–(?) [9][6]
• John II Prodrom, 1077(?)–1089 [10][6]
• John III, 1090–1091 [10][6]
• Nicholas, 1097–1101(?) [11][6]
• Nikephoros, 1104–1121 [11][6]
• Nikita, 1122–1126 [12][6]
• Michael, 1130(?)–1145(?) [12][6]
• Clement, 1147–1159[6]
• Constantine, 1156–1159 [13][6]
• Theodore, 1161–1163 [13][6]
• John IV, 1164–1166 [13][6]
• Costantine II, 1167–1177(?) [14]
• Michael II,[6]
• "John V (?)–(?)" [14]
• Nikephoros II, 1182(?)–1197(?) [14][6]
• Matthew, 1210(?)–1220 [15]
• Cyril, 1224–1233 [15][6]
• Joseph I, 1237–(?) [15][6]
• "Peter (Akerovich)", 1241–1246 (Archbishop of Ruthenia),[6][16] never confirmed by the Patriarch
• Cyril II, 1250–1281 [17][6]
• Maximus, 1283–1299[6]

Consecrated as Metropolitan of Kyiv and Vladimir in 1283, Metropolitan Maximus moved to Vladimir only in 1299.

Metropolitan of Kyiv, Moscow (Vladimir) and all Rus
Metropolitans of Kyiv, Moscow and all Rus: Photius, Theognostus and Cyprian
Seat	Moscow, Grand Duchy of Moscow, Golden Horde
Appointer	Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Precursor	Metropolitan of Kyiv
Formation	1299
First holder	Maximus
Final holder	Isidore
Abolished	1441
Succession	Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galicia Patriarch (Metropolitan) of Moscow and all Rus

Metropolitan of Kyiv (Muscovy, Lithuania, Halych)

In the 14th century the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos sanctioned creation of two additional metropolitan sees in Halych (1303)[18] and Navahrudak (1317).[19]

See in Vladimir		See in Halych		See in Navahrudak
1299–1305	Maximus	1303–1305	Niphont[18]
1308–1326	Peter II (united)			1317–1330	Theophilus

In 1325 the Vladimir's seat was moved to Moscow

See in Moscow		See in Vilno		See in Halych
1326–1328	vacant	1317–1330	Theophilus	1326–1329	Gabriel[18]
1328–1353	Theognostus	1352	Teodorite[20]	1337–1347	Theodore II[18]
1354–1378	Alexius	1354–1362	Roman[21] (united)
1384–1385	Dionysius I	1376–1406	Cyprian[22]	1370–1391	Antoniy
1382–1389	Pimen
1376–1406	Cyprian (united)
1410–1431	Photius	1415–1419	Gregory[23]
1433–1435	Gerasimus[24] (united)
1436–1458	Isidore (united)

Following the signing of Council of Florence, Isidore of Kiev came back to Moscow as a Ruthenian cardinal in 1441, and was arrested after being accused of apostasy. In 1448 the Grand Duke of Moscow installed own Muscovite metropolitan of Kyiv Jonah without the Patriarchal approval Gregory III of Constantinople (in 1461 Metropolitan of Moscow). In 1458, the Orthodox dioceses within the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, including Kyiv, were reorganized and a metropolitan episcopal see was moved to Vilnius, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galicia and all Rus
Metropolitan Mykhailo
Seat	Vilnius, Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Appointer	Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Precursor	Metropolitan of Halych (Lithuania) Metropolitan of Kyiv, Moscow and all Rus
Formation	1458
First holder	Gregory
Final holder	Michael
Abolished	1595
Succession	Ruthenian Uniate Church Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galicia and all Rus

Metropolitans of Kyiv, Galicia and All Ruthenia

Patriarch Isidore II of Constantinople reorganized the church and its primates were given a new title: Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galicia, and all Ruthenia thus commemorating the office of Metropolitan of Galicia. The episcopal see was located in Vilnius.

• Gregory II, 1458–1473 – Catholic metropolitan appointed by Pope Pius II
• Misail Pstruch, 1476–1480 [25] – Catholic metropolitan accepted by Casimir IV Jagiellon, king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania, after agreeing to adopt the 1439 Union of Florence; appointed by Pope Sixtus IV
  • Spyridon Satana, 1476–1482 [26] – consecrated as Orthodox metropolitan of Kyiv by Patriarch Raphael I of Constantinople but rejected by Casimir IV
• Simeon of Kiev, 1481–1488 [26] – first accepted Orthodox metropolitan since 1458
• Jonah Hlezna, 1489–1494 [27]
• Macarius Chort, 1495–1497 [27]
• Joseph Bolharynovich, 1499–1501 [27]
• Jonah, metropolitan of Kyiv, 1503–1507 [28]
• Joseph Soltan, 1509–1522 [28]
• Joseph Rusin, 1523–1533 [28]
• Macarius Moskovytyanyn, 1534–1555 [29]
• Sylvester Bilkevich, 1556–1567 [29]
• Jonah Protasevich, 1568–1577 [29]
• Elias Kucha, 1577–1579 [30]
• Onesiphorus Devochka, 1579–1589 [30]
• Michael III, 1589–1599

In 1595 the Vilnius/Kyiv Metropolis signs the Union of Brest with the Catholic Church, so establishing the Ruthenian Uniate Church.

Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galicia, all Ruthenia, Patriarchal Exarch

In 1620 – about 25 years after the implementation of the Union of Brest – Patriarch Cyril Lucaris, of Constantinople, re-established a rival Metropolitanate of Kyiv (1620–1685) with a disuniate hierarchy, within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.[31][lower-alpha 1] The new metropolitan was organized with bishops who refused to join the Union of Brest. The first hierarch who was finally recognized by the Crown of Poland was Petro Mohyla.

• Job, 1620–1631
• Isaiah, 1631–1633[lower-alpha 2]
• Peter III, 1633–1646 – first accepted Orthodox metropolitan after re-installment
• Sylvester, 1647–1657

Elected in Ukraine (residence in Chyhyryn):[34] Dionisius II, 1657–1663 [35] Joseph V, 1663–1675 [36] Anton Vinnicky, (anti-Metropolitan) 1663–1679 [37] vacant 1679–1685

Appointed by Moscow (residence in Kyiv):[34] Locum Tenens Lazar Baranovych, 1659–1661 [38] Locum Tenens Methodius Filimonovich, 1661–1668 [38] Locum Tenens Lazar Baranovych, 1670–1685 [38]

The Greek Orthodox Metropolitanate of Kyiv was in 1686 transferred from the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the Moscow Patriarchate according to the Russian Orthodox Church (see: 2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism).

Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)

Metropolitan (Archbishop) of Kyiv, Galicia (and all Little Rus)
Seat	Kyiv, Kiev Governorate (Cossack Hetmanate)
Appointer	Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia
Precursor	Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galicia and all Rus, Exarch of Ukraine
Formation	1685
First holder	Gedeon
Final holder	Anthony
Abolished	1919
Succession	Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galicia, Exarch of Ukraine Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

Metropolitans of Kyiv, Galicia and of all Little Rus (1685–1770)

Metropolitan Vladimir

• Gedeon, 1685–1690 [39] (Former bishop of Lutsk, Gedeon Chetvertinsky was elected by the sobor initiated by the Hetman Ivan Samoilovych and later went for consecration to Moscow instead of Constantinople)
• Metropolitan Varlaam, 1690–1707 [39]
• Ioasaph, 1708–1718 [39]

In 1718 Peter the Great abolished metropolitan.

• Archbishop Varlaam, 1722–1730, [39] archbishop
• Raphael, 1731–1747, metropolitan since 1743

In 1743 metropolitan was reinstated.

• Timothy, 1748–1757 [39]
• Arsenius, 1757–1770 [39]

In 1767 Catherine the Great stripped the Metropolitan Arsenius of title "of all Little Rus"

Metropolitans of Kyiv and Galicia (1770–1921)

In 1770 the Kyiv metropolitan was stripped of suffragan bishops and turned into a regular archeparchy carrying honoring title of Metropolitan.

• Gabriel, 1770–1783 [39]
• Samuel, 1783–1796 [39]
• Hierotheus, 1796–1799 [39]
• Gabriel II, 1799–1803 [39]
• Serapion, 1803–1822 [39]
• Eugene, 1822–1837 [39]
• Philaret, 1837–1857 [39]
• Isidore, 1858–1860 [39]
• Arsenius II, 1860–1876 [39]
• Philotheus, 1876–1882 [39]
• Platon, 1882–1891 [39]
• Joanicius, 1891–1900 [39]
• Theognostus, 1900–1903 [39]
• Flavian, 1903–1915 [39]
• Vladimir, 1915–1918 [39]
  • Nicodemus, 1918 (as bishop of Chyhyryn)
• Anthony, 1918–1919 [39]
  • Nazarius Blinov, 1919–1921 [39]

Metropolitans and Archbishops of Kyiv and Galicia (1921–1990)

Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine (Metropolitans of Kyiv and Galicia, Exarch of Ukraine)
Incumbent Metropolitan Onuphrius since 2014
Seat	Kyiv, Ukraine (formerly the Ukrainian SSR)
Appointer	Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia
Precursor	Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galicia and all Rus, Exarch of Ukraine
Formation	1921
First holder	Michael

Partial autonomy was reinstated in a form of exarchate which in the Russian Orthodox Church is a special fixed territory that has autonomy within the church (e.g. Belarusian Exarchate).

• Michael, 1921–1925,[39] bishop in 1921–27 exarch of Ukraine 1921–1929
• Georges Deliev, 1923–1928, [39] bishop acting
• Macarius Karamzin, 1924, [39] bishop acting
• Sergius Kuminsky, 1925–1930, [39] bishop acting
• Demetrius Verbitsky, 1930–1932, [39] archbishop
• Sergius Grishin, 1932–1934, [39] archbishop
• Constantine, 1934–1937,[39] exarch of Ukraine 1929–1937
• Alexander, 1937–1938 [39]
• Nicholas, 1941–1944,[39] exarch of Ukraine 1941
  • During World War II all territory of Ukraine was occupied by the Nazi Germany therefore Metropolitan Nicholas moved to Moscow. The rest of bishops loyal to Moscow Patriarchate created Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church which was recognized by Metropolitan Nicholas. With the end of German occupation Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church was dissolved and incorporated back to the Russian Orthodox Church (Ukrainian Exarchate).
  • Oleksii Hromadskyi, 1941–1943 (Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church)[40]
  • Panteleimon Rudyk, 1943–1944 (Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church)[39][41]
• John, 1944–1964,[39] exarch of Ukraine
• Ioasaph II, 1964–1966,[39] exarch of Ukraine
• Philaret II, 1966–1990,[39] exarch of Ukraine

In 1990 the Ukrainian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, is given "self-ruled" status forming the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)

The Living Church (1923–1941)

In 1923, a major split occurred in the Moscow Patriarchate, with a majority (initially) of the ROC bishops joining a reformist-minded wing of the Church, supported by the OGPU, the Soviet secret police. Across the territory of the USSR, many episcopal sees in the 1920s and 1930s had 2 parallel bishops: one from the Living Church, another from the Moscow Patriarchate. The Living church had its headquarter in Kharkiv and was active in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.[42]

• Tikhon (Vasilevsky), 1923
• Nikolay (Fedotov), 1923–1924
• Aleksandr (Shcherbakov), 1924
• Innokentiy (Pustynsky), 1924–1929
• Iuvenaliy (Moshkovsky), 1928–1929
• Pimen (Pegov), 1929–1935
• Aleksandr (Chekanovsky), 1935–1937
• Vladimir (Zlobin), 1938–1941

Metropolitans of Kyiv and All Ukraine of the Moscow Patriarchate (1990–present)

• Philaret II Denysenko, 1990–1992[39] (joined the newly formed Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate in 1992, excommunicated by the Moscow Patriarchate in 1997[43])
• Volodymyr II Sabodan, 1992–2014[39][44]
• Onufriy Berezovsky,[44] 2014–incumbent

Soviet renovation churches

All-Ukrainian Orthodox Autocephalous Synodical Church

Created in 1923, the church was part of all-Soviet Renovation movement (Obnovlenichestvo).[45] It was liquidated in 1935, but after the remaining communities were headed by acting primate.

• Pimen (Pegov), 1923-1935
• Oleksandr (Chekanovskyi), 1935-1937

Fraternal Parish Association of the Ukrainian Orthodox Autocephalous churches

In 1925 there was created another organization which opposed both the Living Church and Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. After 1937 it disappeared.[46]

• Feofil Buldovsky, 1925–1937

Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (1921–2018, defunct)

Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine (self-consecrated)

• Vasyl Lypkivsky, 1921–1927
• Mykola Boretsky, 1927–1930 [47]
• Ivan Pavlovsky, 1930–1936 [47]

Due to Soviet pressure, the UAOC is liquidated in 1936, some of its members emigrated to the United States.

Polish Orthodox Church period (World War II)

In 1942, UAOC was re-established with help of the Polish Orthodox Church during occupation of Ukraine by the Nazi Germany. Polikarp Sikorsky was consecrated by Dionizy (Waledyński).

• Polikarp Sikorsky, (Administrator of the Church under the title of Metropolitan of Lutsk and Kovel), 1942–1944 [40]

This relative freedom lasted till the return of the Red Army in 1944, after that the UAOC was again liquidated and remained structured only in the diaspora. In 1944 the Orthodox Metropolitan of Warsaw, Dionizy Waledynski, was appointed "Patriarch of All Ukraine", but the Soviet Union did not allow any operation in Ukraine.

Patriarchs of Kyiv and all Rus-Ukraine (1990–2000)

In 1990 the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church was reinstated in Ukraine, and the former Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada Metropolitan Mstyslav was enthroned as a Patriarch.

• Stepan Mstyslav, 1991–1993
• Dmytro Yarema, 1993–2000

Metropolitans of Kyiv and All Ukraine (2000–2018)

• Mefodiy Kudriakov, 2000–2015
• Makariy Maletych, 2015–2018

On 15 December 2018, the UAOC alongside with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate merged into the unified Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (1992–2018; 2019–)

After being dismissed in 1992 by the Archhierarch Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Ukrainian Metropolitan Filaret created a new Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC–KP) under Patriarch Mstyslav of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. On 15 December 2018, the UOC–KP along with the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church merged into the unified Orthodox Church of Ukraine. In June 2019, however, Filaret and few clergyman split from the UOC, over the leadership dispute as the original leader (Patriarchate of the Church).

• Patriarch Mstyslav, 1991–1993

Mstyslav never approved the union between the UAOC and the UOC-KP and both continued to operate separately.[48]

• Patriarch Volodymyr, 1993–1995
• Patriarch Filaret, 1995–2018; 2019–present (see Conflict between Filaret and Epiphanius)

Orthodox Church of Ukraine

This church was established by a unification council on 15 December 2018. The council voted to unite the existing Ukrainian Orthodox churches (UOC-KP, UAOC and parts of the UOC-MP) through their representatives, on the basis of complete canonical independence, into the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU). The primate of the Church is the "Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine". The unification council elected Epiphanius I as its first primate. The decree granting officially autocephaly to the OCU was signed on 5 January 2019.[49][50]

As of December 2019, the OCU is recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople as well as the Patriarchate of Alexandria and Church of Greece.

Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine

• Epiphanius I, 2018–incumbent

See also

• Bishop of Kyiv (disambiguation)
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr
• Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine

Notes

1. King Sigismund III Vasa accused their consecrator, Theophanes III, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, of being a covert agent working on behalf of the Ottoman Empire and ordered his arrest and arrest of those consecrated by him.[32]
2. The hierarchy which was consecrated in 1620 was legalized by the government in a 1632 agreement that permitted both the disuniate Greek Orthodox and uniate Greek Catholic jurisdictions within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.[33]

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External links

• List of Orthodox Metropolitans of Ukraine
• Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) website
• Київські митрополити (до 1708 року) (in Ukrainian)
• Madey, J. History of the Ukrainian church. Encyclopedia of Ukraine