Michael Rohoza
| Mykhajlo Rohoza | |
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| Metropolitan of Kiev | |
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| Church | Ruthenian church |
| Appointed | July 1589 |
| Term ended | 1599 |
| Predecessor | Onesiphorus Devochka |
| Successor |
Ipatii Potii (UGCC) in 1600 Yov Boretsky (EP) in 1620 |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | August 1589 (Bishop) by Jeremias II |
| Personal details | |
| Born | about 1540 |
| Died | 1599 |
Michel Rohoza (Belarusian: Міхал Рагоза, Ukrainian: Михайло Рогоза) (died 1599) was the Ukrainian Metropolitan of Kiev, Galychyna and All-Rus' from 1588 to his death in 1599. In 1595 he signed the Union of Brest which moved the Ukrainian Church from the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople to the jurisdiction of the Pope, thus forming the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
He was born on about 1540 from a noble Belarusians family in the region of Volhynia. He probably studied in a Jesuit college in Vilnius where he worked as clerk for the prince Bogush Koretsky. He later entered in the monastery of the Ascension in Minsk of which he became archimandrite in 1579.
In 1589 Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople visited the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth on his return trip to Constantinople and, in agreement with king Sigismund III Vasa, deposed the Metropolitan Onesiphorus Devochka, probably because he was a digamy (the second marriage for priests) and he tolerated this use. King Sigismund, under the advice of the local nobility, appointed Michel Rohoza as Metropolitan, who was consecrated bishop by Jeremias II in August 1589 in Vilnius.
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