Peter Mohyla | |
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Personal | |
Born |
Suceava, Moldavia |
December 21, 1596
Died | January 1, 1647 Kijow, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth |
(aged 50)
Resting place | Dormition Church (Kiev Cave Monastery) |
Senior posting | |
Title |
Metropolitan of Kiev and Halych and All Rus', Exarch of Ukraine |
Period in office | 1633-1646 |
Consecration | 7 May 1633 in Dormition Church, Lwow |
Predecessor | Isaia Kopynsky |
Successor | Sylvester Kossov |
Religious career | |
Previous post | Archimandrite of the Kiev Cave Monastery |
Peter Mohyla | |
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Metropolitan of Kiev and Halych and All Rus', Exarch of Ukraine |
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Born | December 21, 1596 |
Died | December 22, 1646 | (aged 50)
Venerated in | Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Romanian Orthodox Church, Polish Orthodox Church |
Feast | January 1, but also October 5 |
Metropolitan Peter (secular name Pyotr Simeonovich Mogila, Ukrainian: Петро Симеонович Могила, Polish: Piotr Mohyła, Romanian: Petru Movilă, Russian: Петр Симеонович Могила; 21 December 1596 – 1 January [O.S. 22 December] 1647) was an influential Romanian Orthodox theologian and reformer, Metropolitan of Kiev, Halych and All Rus' from 1633 until his death.
Peter Mogila was born into a Moldavian boyar family — the Movilești — one that gave Moldavia and Wallachia several rulers, including his father, Simion Movilă, Prince of Moldavia; his great-grandfather too was Lord of Moldavia, Petru Rareș. Peter Mogila's mother, Marghita (Margareta), was the daughter of a Moldavian logothete, Gavrilaș Hâra. Peter Mogila's sister Raina Mohylanka married prince Michał Wiśniowiecki, and their son Jeremi Wiśniowiecki was Mogila's nephew and supporter even though he himself changed the faith to marry a Roman Catholic princess and to inherit the Polish crown.