Havryil Kolenda
| Havryil Kolenda | |
|---|---|
| Metropolitan of Kiev | |
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| Church | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
| Appointed | 22 April 1665 |
| Term ended | 11 February 1674 |
| Predecessor | Antin Sielava |
| Successor | Kyprian Zochovskyj |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 28 March 1633 (Priest) |
| Consecration | 1652 (Bishop) by Antin Sielava |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1606 |
| Died | 11 February 1674 (aged 67–68) |
Yuri Havryil Kolenda (Ukrainian: Юрі Гавриїл Коленда, Belarusian: Гаўрыла Календа, Polish: Gabriel Kolenda) (1606—1674) was the Administrator of Kiev–Galicia from 1655 and Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and Russia of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1665 to his death in 1674.
Yuri Kolenda was born on about 1606 in the Vilnius Voivodeship. In 1624 he entered in the Order of Saint Basil the Great taking the religious name of Havryil (Gabriel). He passed his novitiate in the monastery of Byten. Ended the novitiate, in 1627 he was sent to study in Braniewo where he remained till 1630. Returned in Vilnius, he continued his studies here, and on 28 March 1633 he was ordained a priest. He later studied in Vienna and in the Greek College in Rome where he studied from 1 December 1636 to 24 November 1639.
Returned in Lithuania, in 1640 Kolenda became the deputy of the Archbishop of Polotsk, Antin Sielava, who in 1641 became the Metropolitan of Kiev and head of the Church.
Since 1648, the political situation in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth underwent years of crisis. The Khmelnytsky Uprising was a Cossack rebellion in Ukraine which posed a threat to the existence of the Commonwealth. One of the targets of the Cossacks was the liquidation of the Greek-Catholic Church, and this request was considered acceptable by the Latin Catholic Poles who, after being defeated by the Cossacks, signed the Treaty of Zboriv in 1649, only the Papal nuncio and Greek-Catholic bishops opposed. The Cossacks army arrived to forcedly abolish the Greek-Catholic eparchy of Chełm, one of the stronghold of the Greek-Catholic Church. In September 1651, due to a temporary defeat of the Cossacks, the new Treaty of Bila Tserkva was signed and it contained no more statements about the liquidation of the Greek-Catholic Church which was allowed to re-enter in Chełm and Przemyśl.
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