Isaiah Kopinsky
Czernihow Voivodeship | |
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| Previous post(s) | Archbishop of Smolensk and Chernihiv (1628) Bishop of Przemyśl and Sambir (1620) |
| Alma mater | Lviv Fraternity (Brotherhood) School Ostroh Academy |
Isaiah Kopinsky (b ? in Galicia region – 5 October 1640) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus'[a] in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Orthodox Church from 1631 to 1632.
Biography
He studied at the Lviv Dormition Brotherhood School and entered a monastery as a youth. Eventually he became the hegumen of the Kyiv Epiphany Brotherhood Monastery and the Mezhyhiria Transfiguration Monastery and one of the founders of the Kyiv Epiphany Brotherhood School.
On October 6, 1620,
Isaiah was a conservative and a decided foe of Catholicism and the Uniate church. He was also pro-Muscovite and favoured conciliation with the tsar and the Moscow metropolitan. After the legalization of the Orthodox hierarchy by Poland in 1632 and the election of Petro Mohyla as metropolitan of Kyiv, Isaiah was forced by the latter to relinquish his post. He became the supervisor of the Kyiv St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in 1633, and lobbied unsuccessfully to regain his title from Mohyla, supported by many monasteries and Cossacks.
In 1635 he moved to Polisia, and in 1638 back to Kyiv, where he probably died[citation needed].
Notes
- Latinized form of Halych, one of several regional principalities of the medieval state of Kievan Rus'.
References
- ^ SHINE FORTH O KIEV THE NEW JERUSALEM—THE MOTHER OF CHURCHES WATCHES OVER YOU. orthochristian.com
- ^ Isaiah Kopinsky. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine (electronic library)
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