Lev Zalenskyj
Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Lev Shlubych Zalenskyj (Ukrainian: Лев Шлюбич-Заленський, Belarusian: Леў Шлюбіч-Заленскі, Polish: Lew Ślubicz-Załęski) (c. 1648–1708) was the "Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia" in the Ruthenian Uniate Church — a sui juris Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See. He reigned from 1694 until his death in 1708.
Life
Lev Shlubych Zalenskyj was born in about 1648 in Lubycz, a village near Lutsk in Volhynia, from a noble family.
He entered at a young age the Order of Saint Basil the Great, and after novitiate he was assigned to the Supraśl Lavra. He studied at University of Olomouc and in Vilnius. After ordination to the priesthood, at 25 he went to complete his studies in the Greek College in Rome where he studied metaphysics from December 1673 to May 1676, when he returned in his country and was appointed Archimandrite of the Zhyrovichy Monastery.
The bishop of Volodymyr-Brest, Benedict Glynskij, who was Zalenskyj's uncle by the side of his mother, before he died in 1677, had Zalenskyj elected as coadjutor bishop for his diocese. Zalenskyj received the appointment from King John III Sobieski on 30 November 1678 and shortly later he was consecrated a bishop by Metropolitan Kyprian Zochovskyj. In 1679 Zalenskyj became the titular bishop of Volodymyr-Brest, with the title of Protothronius (first after the Metropolitan).
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