Mykhajlo Rohoza

Mykhajlo Rohoza
Metropolitan of Kiev

Church	Ruthenian Orthodox Church Ruthenian Uniate 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 Navahrudak, Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Michel Rohoza (Belarusian: Міхал Рагоза, Ukrainian: Михайло Рогоза) (died 1599) was the Ruthenian Metropolitan of Kiev, Halychyna and All-Ruthenia 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 Ruthenian Uniate Church.

He was born in Volhynia about 1540 from a noble Belarusians family in the region of Minsk county. He probably studied in a Jesuit college in Vilnius where he worked as clerk for the prince Bogush Koretsky, a voivode of Vilnius. 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 such magnates like voivode of Navahrudak Teodor Skumin-Tyszkiewicz and voivode of Kiev Konstanty Ostrogski, appointed Michel Rohoza as Metropolitan of Kiev (Ruthenian Orthodox Church), who was consecrated by Patriarch of Constantinople Jeremias II in August 1589 in Vilnius.