Jason Smogorzewski (born as Jan Smogorzewski; pl, link=no, Jason Junosza Smogorzewski; 3 May 1715 – 27 September 1788) was the "
Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia". He became the first ethnic Polish who headed the Ruthenian Church. Smogorzewski became the first metropolitan to be elected and confirmed following the Russian annexation of
Polotsk
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where he was
archbishop
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.
In 1731 he joined the Order of Basilians and changed from Latin-rite to Byzantine-rite.
On 31 December 1758 Smogorzewski was ordained by archbishop of Durrës
Joseph Schiro (
Albanian Greek Catholic Church
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) as a coadjutor archbishop of Polock becoming a vicar bishop of Vitebsk. On 18 July 1762 he succeeded archbishop
Florian Hrebnicki
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 ...
.
Following the death of
Leo Szeptycki
Leo Sheptycki (born as Leon Ludwik Szeptycki; pl, link=no, Leon Ludwik Szeptycki; 23 August 1717 – 13 May 1779) was the " Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia"
On 14 May 1749 Sheptycki was ordained by bishop of Luck Theodosius Rudnic ...
on 24 May 1779, Smogorzewski served as the administrator of the metropolis. On 30 Oct 1780 he was selected as Metropolitan bishop of Kiev, Galicia, and all Ruthenia and was confirmed on 25 June 1781.
He consecrated the following bishops:
Peter Bielański, Michael Stadnicki and Theodosius Rostocki.
Smogorzewski died in 1788 in
Radomyshl
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where he started to build new metropolitan complex for the Ruthenian Church.
Notes
References
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Jason Smogorzewski' at the ''catholic-hierarchy.org''
1715 births
1788 deaths
Eastern Catholics from the Russian Empire
People from Nowogródek Voivodeship (1507–1795)
Metropolitans of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia (Holy See)
Converts to Eastern Catholicism from Roman Catholicism
Order of Saint Basil the Great
Archbishops of Polotsk (Ruthenian Uniate Church)
Leaders of the Ruthenian Uniate Church
18th-century bishops in the Holy Roman Empire
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