Lev Zalenskyj

Lev Szlubic Zalenskyj
Metropolitan of Kiev
Church	Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Appointed	16 September 1695
Term ended	21 July 1708
Predecessor	Kyprian Zochovskyj
Successor	Yurij Vynnyckyj
Orders
Consecration	1678 (Bishop) by Kyprian Zochovskyj
Personal details
Born	about 1648
Died	21 July 1708 Volodymyr-Volynskyi

Lev Szlubic Zalenskyj (Ukrainian: Лев Слюбич-Заленський, Belarusian: Леў Шлюбіч-Заленскі, Polish: Lew Ślubicz-Załęski) (c. 1648—1708) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and Russia of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1694 to his death in 1708.

Lev Szlubic Zalenskyj was born on about 1648 in Lubycz, a village near Lutsk in Volhynia, from a noble family. He entered young in the Order of Saint Basil the Great, and after the novitiate he was assigned to the Supraśl Lavra. He studied at University of Olomouc and in Vilnius. After having been ordained a priest, at 25 he went to complete his studies in the Greek College in Rome where he studied metaphysic 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 to die in 1677 succeeded to have 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 and got the title of Protothronius (first after the Metropolitan).

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