Dionysius Balaban

Dionysius Balaban
Metropolitan Dionysius Balaban
ChurchEcumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
MetropolisMetropolis of Kyiv
DioceseKyiv
SeeKyiv (temporary Chyhyryn)
Elected1657
PredecessorSylvester Kosiv
SuccessorJoseph Tukalskyi-Nelyubovych
Other post(s)Bishop of Lutsk and Ostroh (1655)
Bishop of Chelm (1650-1652)
Orders
Ordination1650 (bishop)
Rank
  • Metropolitan (1657)
  • Bishop (1650)
Personal details
Born
Died10 May 1663
Korsun, Cossack Hetmanate
NationalityUkrainian (Ruthenian)
DenominationEastern Orthodox

Dionysius Balaban-Tukalskyi (Ukrainian: Діонісій Балабан; ? – 10 May 1663, in Chyhyryn) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus'[a] in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Orthodox Church from 1657 to 1663.
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