Herman Zahorskyj (? - 1600 or 1601) was a bishop of the

Ruthenian Uniate Church The Ruthenian Uniate Church ( Belarusian: Руская Уніяцкая Царква; Ukrainian: Руська Унійна Церква; la, Ecclesia Ruthena unita; pl, Ruski Kościół Unicki) was a particular church of the Catholic Church i ...

. Since 1595 he was Archbishop of

Polotsk Polotsk (russian: По́лоцк; be, По́лацк, translit=Polatsk (BGN/PCGN), Polack (official transliteration); lt, Polockas; pl, Połock) is a historical city in Belarus, situated on the Dvina River. It is the center of the Polotsk Distr ...

(originally Orthodox) and in 1596 accepted 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 ...

, became Greek

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Biography

Zahorskyj was named as coadjutor on May 5, 1595, for the Archeparchy of Polotsk. Since July 1595 (after the death of the previous bishop of Polotsk Natanail Selitsky) he assumed the function of the ordinary of the Polotsk eparch. On September 22, 1595, the Polish king

Sigismund III Vasa Sigismund III Vasa ( pl, Zygmunt III Waza, lt, Žygimantas Vaza; 20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 N.S.) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden and Grand Duke of Finland from 1592 to ...

named him archbishopric of Polotsk. In 1594 - 1595, Hermann Zahorskyj signed Uniate documents as "nominated" to the archbishop of Polotsk. On 19 October 1596 he was one of those Orthodox hierarchs who supported and signed the act of the Union of Brest, �.А. Телова, З.И. Зуева, Уния в документах , Minsk 1997, p. 139./ref> formally became a Greek Catholic bishop till his death in 1600 or 1601.

Literature

* T. Kempa: Prawosławie i unia we wschodnich województwach WKL w końcu XVII w. pp. 5–10. * Блажейовський Д .: Ієрархія Київської церкви (861-1996). Львів: Каменяр, 1996. p. 281.

References

External links

* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bzahor.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Zahorskyj Herman 1500s births 1600 deaths People from Polotsk Converts to Eastern Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy Eastern Orthodox bishops in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Former Belarusian Orthodox Christians 16th-century Eastern Orthodox bishops Uniate archbishops of Polotsk