Bishop Isaac ( Boriskovich-Chernchitsky ) - Bishop of the Kyiv Metropolis of the Patriarchate of Constantinople , Bishop of Peremyshl (1633—1636), Bishop of Lutsk and Ostrog (1621—1633).
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Biography
He was a novice of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra .
Then he moved to the service of the Patriarch of Alexandria, Meletii, and was with him as a student and Sinkella (adopted in the East, the name of the clerics living in the same cell with the bishop) for seven years, until the death of the patriarch.
Many years tied up in the East and Athos , on his return to southern Russia, he was appointed rector of the Derman Trinity Monastery , discovered by Prince Konstantin of Ostrog with the assistance of the Patriarchal Exarch of the Lithuanian Metropolis. Prince Konstantin Ostrozhsky established a printing house for Orthodox in the monastery. With the help of the priest, Damian published several books ( Oktoih , the Dialogue on Holy Faith and others); The monks Isaac assiduously encouraged to teach youth and the publication of holy books.
In 1614 he traveled to the East for the second time.
From 1617 - hegumen of the Chernchitsky Spassky Monastery near Lutsk .
He himself was one of the prominent members of the Lutsk Holy Cross Brotherhood and the teacher of the brotherly school.
On January 11, 1621, the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophanes , who was in Kiev, was consecrated Bishop of Lutsk. Soon, the Uniates were ousted from the diocese and lived first in Stepansky and then in the Kiev-Mikhailovsky Monastery . He managed the affairs of his diocese from Kiev .
In 1625 I was in Moscow on a personal presentation to the emperor Mikhail Fedorovich with letters from the Kiev Metropolitan Iov (Boretsky) about accepting Little Russia into Moscow citizenship. But then these requests were found untimely.
He took part in the Kiev Cathedral of 1628, which condemned the pro-Catholic writing of Polotsk by Archbishop Meletius (Smotrytsky) “Apology”.
April 8, 1633 participated in the ordination of the Metropolitan of Kiev Peter (Tomb) . He assisted him in establishing a higher religious school in Kiev.
In 1633 he was forcibly brought down from the pulpit by a fanatic Jeremiah Pochapovsky , a Uniate bishop of Lutsk.
From 1633 to 1636 - Bishop of Przemysl.
He died in 1641 in Kiev.
Links
- Isaac (Boriskovich-Chernchitsky) // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Russian biographical dictionary : 25 tons. / Under the supervision of A. A. Polovtsov. 1896-1918.