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Article: Mohyla, Peter (Romanian, Petru Movilǎ; 1596–1646)
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MOHYLA, PETER (Romanian, Petru Movil
ǎ
; 1596
–
1646)
MOHYLA, PETER
(Romanian, Petru Movil
ǎ
; 1596
–
1646), archimandrite of the Kiev Monastery of the Caves and Orthodox metropolitan of Kiev. Mohyla was the son of Simeon,
hospodar
(lord) of Walachia and Moldavia. He and his mother, the Hungarian princess Margareta, sought the protection of magnate relatives in the western Ukrainian lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after his father's murder in 1607. Mohyla may have studied at the school of the Orthodox Lviv Brotherhood and at the Zamo
ś
ć
Academy; one source suggests that he studied in western Europe. In any event, he received a thorough ...