Dionysius Balaban
Dionysius Balaban | |
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| Church | Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople |
| Metropolis | Metropolis of Kyiv |
| Diocese | Kyiv |
| See | Kyiv (temporary Chyhyryn) |
| Elected | 1657 |
| Predecessor | Sylvester Kosiv |
| Successor | Joseph Tukalskyi-Nelyubovych |
| Other post(s) | Bishop of Lutsk and Ostroh (1655) Bishop of Chelm (1650-1652) |
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| Ordination | 1650 (bishop) |
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| Born | Eastern Orthodox |
Dionysius Balaban-Tukalskyi (Ukrainian: Діонісій Балабан; ? – 10 May 1663, in Chyhyryn) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus'[a] in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Orthodox Church from 1657 to 1663.
Biography
He came from an old noble family from
Patriarchate of Moscow
.
Balaban studied at the
Metropolitan of Kyiv
(1657–1663).
In 1658 Balaban was forced to relocate his see to
locum tenens) by the bishop of Chernihiv Lazar Baranovych
.
Metropolitan Balaban supported the policies of Hetman
Yuriy Khmelnytskyi to the Kaniv Monastery
.
Consecrated bishops
Notes
- Latinized form of Halych, one of several regional principalities of the medieval state of Kievan Rus'.
References
- Dionysius Balaban at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- Dionysius Balaban at Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine
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