Antin Sielava

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Anton Sielava
Joseph Rutski
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Born1583
Died5 October 1655 (aged 71–72)

Anton Anastas Sielava (

Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See
. He reigned from 1641 until his death in 1655.

Life

Anastas Sielava was born on about 1583 in the

priest in 1617. He studied in the Greek College in Rome from 1617 to September 1619.[2]

On 12 November 1623 the bishop of

bishop in early 1624 by Metropolitan Joseph Velamin-Rutski and enthroned on 14 February 1624.[4]

To Metropolitan Joseph Rutski succeeded Metropolitan

Visit ad Limina, appointed Sielava as Vicarius for the Church. Rafajil Korsak died in Rome in August 1640 and, according to his last will, Pope Urban VIII confirmed Sielava as new Metropolitan after the usual process of eligibility.[1] Anton Sielava was so formally appointed Metropolitan of Kiev on 18 March 1641.[5] His patriarchate was initially marked by the beatification
, on 16 May 1643, of Josaphat Kuntsevich.

As with his predecessor, he continued to negotiate with the prelates of the

Peter Mogila, seeking a way to unify the Church in Ukraine.[6]
However, he was not a person of the stamp of his predecessors; after Mogila's death in 1646, the discussions ended without results.

Sielava left much part of the administration of the Church to others, and he was of a sickly disposition and quite

hypochondriac,[7] and in the last part of his life he was seriously ill and blind.[8]

Since 1648, the political situation in the

Gabriel Kolenda
.

Works

Anton Sielava was also a writer and a

polemist. Among his works we have his "Antelenchus", against the "Elenchum" of Meletius Smotrytski, and his "Vitam Servi Dei Josaphat, Archiepiscopi Polocensis" (Life of the Servant of God Josaphat, bishop of Polotsk) edited in 1624.[1]

Notes

  1. Latinized form of Halych, one of several regional principalities of the medieval state of Kievan Rus'
    .

References

  1. ^ a b c Welykyv, Athanasius (1956). "Antoni Sielava Biographia". Epistolae metropolitarum Kioviensium catholicorum Raphaels Korsak, Antonii Sielava, Gabrielis Kolenda. Analecta OSBM. Serie 2. Sectio 3. Rome. pp. 173–174.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ Blazejowsky, Dmytro (1979). "Ukrainian and Bielorussian students at the 7 Pontifical Greek College of Rome". Analecta Ordinis S. Basilii Magni (Sectio II, vol X (XVI), Fasc 1-4). Rome: sumptibus PP. Basilianorum: 150.
  3. ^ "Seliava, Antonii Atanasii". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
  4. ^ a b Blazejowsky, Dmytro (1990). Hierarchy of the Kyivan Church (861-1990). Rome. pp. 250, 281.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ Patritium Gauchat (1935). Hierarchia catholica Medii aevi sive summorum pontificum, S.R.E. cardinalium, ecclesiarum antistitum series. Vol. 4. Regensburg. p. 150. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ^ a b Baran, Alexander (1971). "Propaganda's concern for the Church in Ukraine and Bielorussia". In Metzler J. (ed.). Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide Memoria Rerum. Vol. I/2. Herder. pp. 230–231.
  7. ^ Senyk, Sophia (1996). "The Ukrainian Church in the seventeenth century". Analecta Ordinis S. Basilii Magni (Sectio II, vol XV (XXI), Fasc 1-4). Rome: sumptibus PP. Basilianorum: 357.
  8. ^ Pelesz, Julian (1881). Geschichte der Union der ruthenischen Kirche mit Rom. Woerl. pp. 215–240.

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Ruthenian Uniate Church titles
Preceded by Archbishop of Polotsk
1624 – 1655 		Succeeded by
Nikifor Losovski
Preceded by Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia
1641 – 1655 		Succeeded by


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