Gedeon Chetvertinsky

Mitropolitan Gedeon, portrait 17th century

Gedeon (Svyatopolk-Chetvertynsky) was a Ruthenian prince and religious figure and Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Little Russia (Ruthenia). He became the first Metropolitan of Kiev of the Russian Orthodox Church with help of the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host Ivan Samoylovych.

Gedeon was born as Hryhoriy to starosta of Racibórz Zachary Svyatopolk-Chetvertynsky and Regina Chrenicka in Volhynian Voivodeship, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

From 1660 to 1684 he was a bishop of Lutsk and Ostroh in Volhynia (today Volyn diocese).

Gallery

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  Gedeon's mitre, 1685 (Historical museum, Moscow)

See also

• Czetwertyński family
• Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)

External links

• Kramar, O. Patriarch-raider. The Ukrainian Week. 11 February 2011.
• Gedeon at the Orthodox Encyclopedia
• Also known as Hedeon at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine