Job Boretsky

Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia (1620–1631)

Job Boretsky (Ukrainian: Йов, secular name Ivan Matfeyevich Boretsky, Polish: Iwan Borecki, died 2 March 1631) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus'[a] in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Orthodox Church from 1620 to 1631. He was a Ruthenian national, born in Bircza, Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at an unknown date. He died in the city of Kyiv in the Cossack Hetmanate. As Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' he was known as an outstanding church leader, educator, and defender of the Eastern Orthodox faith.

## Biography

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His family came from Bircha (Bircza) in Galicia. He was educated at the Lviv Dormition Brotherhood School and abroad. He worked as a teacher and rector at the Lviv Dormition Brotherhood School (1604–5) and was the first rector of the Kyiv Epiphany Brotherhood School (1615–18). In 1619, he became hegumen of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery of Kyiv.

In August 1620 the patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophanes III, ordained Boretsky metropolitan of Kyiv, Halychyna, and All-Rus'. Boretsky had a strong influence on the Cossacks under Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny's hetmancy. As, metropolitan Boretsky composed a petition in defense of the Orthodox hierarchy entitled Protestacja (1621). Along with the Greek-Catholic Metropolitan bishop of Kyiv Josyf Veliamyn Rutsky, he favoured a general reconciliation within the Ukrainian church, but failed to gain the support of the Cossacks for his plans. A prolific translator, Boretsky also wrote poems honouring saints, petitions, prefaces, and edicts. "Perestoroha" is attributed to him. He was the co-author of "Apolleia Apolohii" (A Refutation of 'A Defense,' 1628) and the translator of "Antolohion" from the Greek (1619).

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1. ^ The title is also known as the Metropolis of Kiev, Halych and all Rus' or Metropolis of Kyiv, Halychyna, and All-Rus'. The name "Galicia" is a Latinized form of Halych, one of several regional principalities of the medieval state of Kievan Rus'.

## References

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* Boretsky, Yov at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine

Preceded by

Michael Rohoza

|  Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus'
1620–1631  | Succeeded by

Isaiah Kopinsky

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Metropolitans of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' (1620–1686)

* Job Boretsky
* Isaiah Kopinsky
* Petro Mohyla
* Sylvester Kosiv
* Dionysius Balaban
* Joseph Neliubovich-Tukalsky
* Anthony Vinnytsky

Locum tenens – Lazar Baranovych (in left-bank Ukraine)

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Metropolitans of Kyiv

Metropolis of Kiev and all Rus'
(episcopal see in Kyiv, 988-1281)|

* (Michael and Leontius)
* Theophylact
* John
* Teopempt
* Ephraim
* George
* John II
* John III
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* Nikephoros
* Nikita
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* John IV
* Costantine II
* John V
* Nikephoros II
* Matthew
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* Kirill II

Partition of the metropolis
(1283-1378)|

| Metropolis of Kiev and all Rus'
(episcopal see in Moscow)|

* Maximus
* Peter
* Theognostus
* Alexius
* Cyprian (As "Metropolitan of Kiev, Russia and Lithuania")

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Metropolis of Halych
(episcopal see in Halych)|

* Niphont
* Gabriel
* Theodore
* Antoniy

Metropolis of Lithuania
(episcopal see in Navahrudak)|

* Theophilus
* Roman (merged metropolises of Lithuania and Halych)

Reunited Metropolis
(episcopal see in Moscow, 1378-1441)|

* Cyprian
* Photius
* Gerasimus
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Metropolis of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus'
(1441 - 1596)|

* Gregoryb
* Spyridon
* Simeon
* Jonah
* Macarius
* Joseph
* Jonah II
* Joseph II
* Joseph III
* Macarius II
* Sylvester
* Jonah III
* Elias
* Onesiphorus
* Michaelb

Metropolis of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus'
(1620–1686)|

* Job I
* Isaiah I
* Peter II
* Sylvester II
* Dionysius I
* Joseph III

Russian occupation|

* Sede vacante (1685-1989)

Ukrainian Orthodox Church|

| Autocephalous|

* Mstyslav I
* Demetrius I
* Methodius I
* Macarius III

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Kyiv Patriarchate|

* Volodymyr I
* Philaretos I

Unified|

* Epiphanius I

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