Kyrylo Stavrovetsky-Tranquillon (died 1646) was a Ruthenian (Ukrainian) church figure of the

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Crown of the Kingdom of ...

, poet, publisher, archimandrite of the Yelets Dormition Monastery in

Chernihiv Chernihiv ( uk, Черні́гів, , russian: Черни́гов, ; pl, Czernihów, ; la, Czernihovia), is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of Chernihiv Oblast and Chernihiv Raion within ...

. He is better known for his publishing efforts which provided Ruthenian citizens of the Commonwealth with literature in native language.

Biography

It is not known when Stavrovetsky was born. Sometime at the end of 1580s he taught at the Lviv Brotherhood School, after which in 1592 Stavrovetsky moved to Ostrog and

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due to persecutions against bishop

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. In December 1592 along with Ternopil brethren, he vouched for the Lviv Brotherhood in front of

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. The fact is reflected in inscription over the entrance of the Ternopil Nativity Church. In 1618 Stavrovetsky returned to

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and for a brief time was

hegumen Hegumen, hegumenos, or igumen ( el, ἡγούμενος, trans. ), is the title for the head of a monastery in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, similar to the title of abbot. The head of a convent of nuns is called a hegumenia ...

at the small Univ Dormition Monastery (1618). Later he was a hegumen (1618–19) at the Lubartow Monastery near

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. In 1621-25 Stavrovetsky was a preacher in

Zamość Zamość (; yi, זאמאשטש, Zamoshtsh; la, Zamoscia) is a historical city in southeastern Poland. It is situated in the southern part of Lublin Voivodeship, about from Lublin, from Warsaw. In 2021, the population of Zamość was 62,021. ...

. In 1626 he adopted the

Union of Brest The Union of Brest (; ; ; ) was the 1595–96 decision of the Ruthenian Orthodox Church eparchies (dioceses) in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to break relations with the Eastern Orthodox Church and to enter into communion with, and place i ...

and from 1628 to his death he was an archimandrite of Yelets Dormition Monastery.

Known publications

* 1618 Mirror of Theology (''Zertsalo bohosloviia'') * 1619

Didactic gospel Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature, art, and design. In art, design, architecture, and landscape, didacticism is an emerging conceptual approach that is driven by the urgent need to ...

(''Uchytelni yevanheliia'') ** In 1620s the congress of Ukrainian Orthodox bishops headed by the Exarch of Ukraine Iov Boretsky condemned the book, while in 1627 the Moscow church authorities ordered that it be burnt. * 1646 Priceless Perl (''Perlo mnohotsinnoie'')

External links

Kyrylo Stavrovetsky
at the

Encyclopedia of Ukraine The ''Encyclopedia of Ukraine'' ( uk, Енциклопедія українознавства, translit=Entsyklopediia ukrainoznavstva), published from 1984 to 2001, is a fundamental work of Ukrainian Studies. Development The work was creat ...

Poetry of Stavrovetsky
at Izbornik
Kyrylo Stavrovetsky
at the

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary The ''Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary'' (Russian: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона, abbr. ЭСБЕ, tr. ; 35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume ...

Kyrylo Stavrovetsky
at the

Russian Biographical Dictionary The ''Russian Biographical Dictionary'' (RBD, russian: Русский биографический словарь) is a Russian-language biographical dictionary published by the Russian Historian Society edited by a collective with Alexander Polov ...

Year of birth unknown 1646 deaths People from Rivne Oblast People from Volhynian Voivodeship Eastern Orthodox monks from Ukraine Ukrainian Christian monks {{Ukraine-bio-stub