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Gedeon Chetvertinsky

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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).

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

See also

Preceded by Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia
Exarch of Constantinople Patriarch
1685–1688 		Succeeded by
position liquidated
Preceded by
creation of post
 Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Little Russia
1688–1690 		Succeeded by
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