Florian Hrebnicki (born as Franciszek Hrebnicki; pl, link=no, Florian Hrebnicki; 1683 – 18 July 1762) was the "
Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia"
On 14 March 1716 Hrebnicki was ordained by Primate of the Uniate church
Leo Kiszka as a archbishop of Polock.
On 16 December 1748 he was confirmed as the Metropolitan bishop of Kiev, Galicia, and all Ruthenia.
He consecrated following bishops
Maksymilian Rylo
Maksymilian Rylo, O.S.B.M. ( pl, Maksymilian Ryłło, uk, Максиміліян Рило; 21 September 1719 – 22 November 1793) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was an Eparchial Bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Chełm ...
and Theodosius Godebski.
Hrebnicki died in 1762 at a residence of the Polotsk Archbishops that he built in village of Strunie (today in
Polotsk District
Polotsk District is a second-level administrative subdivision (raion) of Belarus in the Vitebsk Region
Vitebsk Region or Vitebsk Oblast or Viciebsk Voblasts ( be, Ві́цебская во́бласць, ''Viciebskaja voblasć'', ; rus, Ви́т ...
).
Notes
References
*
Florian Hrebnicki' at the ''catholic-hierarchy.org''
* Sas, P.
Florian Hrebnicki (ГРЕБНИЦЬКИЙ ФЛОРІЯН МИХАЙЛОВИЧ)'. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. 2004
1683 births
1762 deaths
People from Vitebsk Voivodeship
Ruthenian nobility of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Metropolitans of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia (Holy See)
Order of Saint Basil the Great
Archbishops of Polotsk (Ruthenian Uniate Church)
Leaders of the Ruthenian Uniate Church
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