Sylvester Kosiv

Sylvester Kossów
Native name
Silvester Kosaw
ChurchRuthenian Orthodox
MetropolisKiev, Galicia and all Rus'
SeeEcumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
Elected1647
In office1647–1657
PredecessorPetro Mohyla
SuccessorDionysius Balaban
Other post(s)Bishop of Mstsislaw, Orsha, and Mahiliow (1635–1647)
Personal details
Born
Stefan-Adam Kosaw

Died13 April 1657
Kyiv, Cossack Hetmanate
BuriedDormition Cathedral (Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra)
DenominationEastern Orthodox
Alma materZamość Academy

Sylvester Kossów, Kosiv or Kosov (secular name Stefan-Adam Kosaw, Polish: Sylwester Kossów; born Zharobychi, Vitebsk Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, died 13 April 1657) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus'[a] in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Orthodox Church from 1647 to 1657. He reigned during the Khmelnytsky uprising.
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