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Article: Smotrytskyi, Meletii (c. 1577–1633)
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SMOTRYTSKYI, MELETII (c. 1577
–
1633)
SMOTRYTSKYI, MELETII
(c. 1577
–
1633), Orthodox archbishop of Polatsk, bishop of Vitsyebsk and Mstsisla
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, archimandrite of the monastery of the Vilnius Orthodox Brotherhood of the Descent of the Holy Spirit; subsequently, following his conversion to the Uniate church, archbishop of Hierapolis and archimandrite of the Uniate monastery in Volhynian Derman'; philologist and polemical writer.
Smotrytskyi was born into one of the first documented families of a burgeoning Ruthenian Orthodox intelligentsia: his father Herasym, a client of the palatine of Kiev Kostiantyn Ostrozkyi, was one of the editors of the 1581 Ostrih Bible, the first ...