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Herman Zahorskyj
Herman Zahorskyj
Church	Roman Catholic Church; Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
Metropolis	Ruthenian Uniate Church; Kyiv, Galicia and all Rus
Diocese	Polotsk
See	Polotsk
Elected	19 October 1596
Term ended	1600
Predecessor	new post (catholic); Natanail Selitsky (eastern orthodox)
Successor	Gedeon Brolnitskyj (catholic); Meletius Smotrytsky (eastern orthodox)
Orders
Ordination	1595; by Michael Rohoza
Personal details
Died	1600

Herman Zahorskyj (? - 1600 or 1601) was a bishop of the Ruthenian Uniate Church. Since 1595 he was Archbishop of Polotsk (originally Orthodox) and in 1596 accepted the Union of Brest, became Greek Catholic.

Biography

Zahorskyj was named as coadjutor on May 5, 1595, for the Archeparchy of Polotsk. Since July 1595 (after the death of the previous bishop of Polotsk Natanail Selitsky) he assumed the function of the ordinary of the Polotsk eparch. On September 22, 1595, the Polish king Sigismund III Vasa named him archbishopric of Polotsk. In 1594 - 1595, Hermann Zahorskyj signed Uniate documents as "nominated" to the archbishop of Polotsk.^[1]

On 19 October 1596 he was one of those Orthodox hierarchs who supported and signed the act of the Union of Brest,^[2] formally became a Greek Catholic bishop till his death in 1600 or 1601.

Literature

T. Kempa: Prawosławie i unia we wschodnich województwach WKL w końcu XVII w. pp. 5–10.
Блажейовський Д .: Ієрархія Київської церкви (861-1996). Львів: Каменяр, 1996. p. 281.

References

^ Blazheyovsky D. Hierarchy of the Kievan Church (861-1996). - Lviv: Kamenyar, 1996. - P. 281.]
^ [В.А. Телова, З.И. Зуева, Уния в документах , Minsk 1997, p. 139.]