Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski

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Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski
Aleksander Ostrogski
FatherKonstanty Ostrogski
MotherAleksandra Słucka

Kostiantyn Ostrozkyi
Right-Believing Prince
Venerated inOrthodox Church of Ukraine
Canonized12 July 2008
Feast26 February

Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski (

False Dmitriy I and supported Jan Zamoyski
.

Biography

The date of birth of Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski is disputed. According to some historians he was born around 1524/1525.

He married in January 1553 in Tarnów.

In the 1570s he waged a war against another magnate, Stanisław Tarnowski, about disputed possession of estates in the area of Tarnów, in Lesser Poland.

Prince Ostrogski was of

Roman Catholicism
.

Ostrogski's huge latifundium, or landed estate in the eastern Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, consisted of 100 towns and 1300 villages.[6] It was Ostrogski who built Starokostiantyniv Castle.

Ostroh boasted an Orthodox academy, a yeshiva, a mosque, and a Unitarian Church.[7]

He was canonized in the Orthodox Church of Ukraine as a Right-Believing prince.

See also

References

  1. ^ Kempa, Tomasz (1996). "Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski wobec katolicyzmu i wyznań protestanckich". Odrodzenie I Reformacja. 40: 17. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  2. ^ Kempa, Tomasz (2002). Dzieje rodu Ostrogskich. Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek. p. 79.
  3. ^ Kempa, Tomasz (1996). "Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski wobec katolicyzmu i wyznań protestanckich". Odrodzenie I Reformacja. 40: 19. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
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