Yelysei Pletenetskyi
Ukrainian head of a monastery
Yelysei Pletenetskyi, or Yelysei Pletenetsky (1550 – 29 October 1624), also known as Elizeusz (Elisius) Pletenecki, was a Ukrainian archimandrite of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He served as archimandrite of a monastery in the Pinsk region from 1595 to 1599, and of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra from 1599 until his death.
Life
A native of Galicia, Pletenetskyi worked hard at reforming the Kyiv Pechersk monastery, and secured the right of stauropegion for it. He established a hospital for the poor, a printing house, the printing press for which was brought from Striatyn, and the Radomysl paper mill.
Between 1616 and 1630 the printing shop established by Pletenetskyi produced forty titles, becoming the most productive publishing establishment in Ukraine and Belarus. Among the publications were works of literature, history and religious polemic, liturgical texts and school books, including the Slovene-Rus' Lexicon (1627).
Pletenetskyi worked during the times when his Ruthenian Church signed the 1595 Union of Brest and many dioceses (eparchies) along with the metropolitan bishop (episcope) aligned themselves with the Roman Holy See as the Ruthenian Uniate Church. The Reverend Yelysei was against the union.
Pletenetsky attracted a group of notable church and cultural figures at the monastery, including Pamvo Berynda, Stepan Berynda, Job Boretsky (later Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus'), Havrylo Dorofeievych, Zacharias Kopystensky, Taras Zemka, and Lavrentij Zizanij. Under his leadership in 1615 Kyiv received its own Orthodox brotherhood modelled on the Dormition Brotherhood in Lviv.
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