metaphysic, he remained in Rome serving in the Greek Rite church of Santi Sergio e Bacco and as secretary of the bishop of Chełm, Jacob Souza, who dwelt in Rome for some years.[2]
Upon returning to his country he was appointed Archimandrite of the monastery in Dubno, and from 1668 Archimandrite of the monastery of Leszczynen. Since 1667 he was at the side of Metropolitan Havryil Kolenda. Zochovskyj proved to be a good administrator: he restored churches and monasteries and he was distinguished for his sermons.
The Metropolitan of Kiev,
Volodymyr-Brest and even bishop Jacob Souza.[5] They asked Rome to intervene and to make void the appointment of Zochovskyj because of his young age (he was only 35). However, in May 1673 Rome confirmed the Zochovskyj's right of succession. At the death of Kolenda, on 11 February 1674, Zochovskyj became the new Metropolitan of Kiev.[2]
Metropolitan
A parallel metropolis was erected in 1620 — the
king and by the Nuncio, the debate never took place.[6]
Concerning his
Superior general) a simple monk. However, years later, on he tried to take the full control on the Order, and so he tried to be elected Proto-Archimandrite in 1683 and in 1684. In both the cases the monks objected and appealed to Rome, that took the side of the monks, cancelling the elections of Zochovskyj as Proto-Archimandrite, and in August 1686 clearly defining the limited power of the Metropolitan in the life of the Order.[5]
Zochovskyj opposed to passage of any faithful of Greek Rite to the Latin rite and he opposed the latinization of his rite,[2] carried on with the Polonization of his country: pleaded by a petition of Zochovskyj, the Pope confirmed the ban of any liturgical latinizated ceremony. In the early 1690s founded in Supraśl a Printing press and thus he stopped the influx of liturgical books from Moscow and he arrested the process of latinization.[2]
He was concerned about improving the education of the clergy and the development of a network of schools: for this aim he restored the
Saint Sophia Cathedral in Polotsk
.
Zochovskyj expanded the veneration of the
Jan Sobieski
, confirmed all the rights and privileges of the Greek Catholic Church.
Kyprian Zochovskyj died on 26 October 1693 and was buried in Polotsk.
Notes
Latinized form of Halych, one of several regional principalities of the medieval state of Kievan Rus'
.
References
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