Leo Slyubich-Zalensky (according to Uniate reckoning Leo I; 1648-1708) - Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and All Russia of the Russian Uniate Church .
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Biography
Born in 1648 in Volyn in the town of Lubich near Lutsk [3] ; came from the Polish nobles Zalenski [4] .
He joined the Basilian Order at the Suprale Monastery , then went to study abroad, first to Olmutz , then to the Pontifical Greek College of St. Athanasius in Rome. After graduation, he returned to Lithuania and settled in Zhirovitsy [5] [4] .
At the end of 1676, he was present at the 1st Grodno Diet, and in 1677 he became bishop of Vladimir, after a short co-oath of his predecessor [6] [4] .
In 1679, Leo was ordained bishop; in 1693 he was present at the Warsaw Sejm, and on November 15 of that year he became administrator of the Uniate Metropolis, and continued to head the Vladimir Diocese and, in addition, was appointed Bishop of Polotsk [4] [7] .
On October 12, 1695, he took the place of the deceased Metropolitan Kipriyan Zhokhovsky and received the Metropolitan’s rank, retaining all his previous posts [4] .
Leo Zalensky was completely subordinate to the influence of the Basilians; On August 26, 1698, he agreed to the requirement to appoint bishops only from members of their order, although he did not like them at heart. During the turmoil in Poland, caused first by the election of the king, and then by the Northern War , the church needed an energetic representative. Leo Zalensky did not possess the proper energy and failed to achieve order in his metropolis. In July 1705, Peter the Great , hearing the constant complaints of the Polotsk Orthodox population about the oppression of the Uniate clergy, began to investigate this matter; he demanded a trial and punished two especially fanatical Catholic bishops and the superior Polotsk monastery, as well as other persons convicted of brutal oppression of the Orthodox. Then Peter the Great demanded that the Uniate Metropolitan, who allowed these oppressions and forcibly converted the Orthodox to a union, be brought to court. Then Leo fled and died on July 21, 1708 in Vladimir-Volynsky [4] [8] [9] .
Notes
- ↑ Orthodox Encyclopedia - Church Scientific Center "Orthodox Encyclopedia" , 2000.
- ↑ Leo (Zalensky, Leo I) // Russian Biographical Dictionary / Ed. N. D. Chechulin , M. G. Kurdyumov - St. Petersburg. : 1914. - T. 10. - S. 166.
- ↑ Leo Zalensky // Orthodox Encyclopedia .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 B. G. Leo (Zalensky, Leo I) // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
- ↑ “Enсuclopedyia Powszechna,” Volume 28, pp. 232–236.
- ↑ "Scientific Notes of the Second Branch of the Academy of Sciences", book 3, 1856.
- ↑ Harusiewics . "Annales Ecclesiae Ruthenae", p. 249.
- ↑ It is noteworthy that in the “RBSP”, at the beginning of the article Leo (Zalensky, Leo I) , it is said that Slyubich-Zalensky “ died. in Vladimir ", and at the end of the article it is said that" Leo fled to Austria, where he died ... ".
- ↑ Nazarko I. Kyiv and Galicia Metropolitans: Biographical Narisi (1590-1960). - Rome, 1962 .-- S. 69-72.
Literature
- “Volyn diocesan sheets”, 1867, No. 3, 9; 1873, No. 9.
- “Addendum to the Description of St. Sophia Cathedral”, page 265.
- Kulczynski . “Specimen Ecclesiae Ruthenicae”, Rome , 1733, 135, 137.