Ipatii Potii

Adam Ipatii Potii was the Ukrainian Metropolitan of Kiev and Galychyna from 1599 to his death in 1613. He played an active role in the 1595 Union of Brest of which he was a firm supporter. He was also a writer, polemist and theologian.

Adam Potii was born onAugust 1541 in Ranka, Lublin Voivodeship from a noble family. His mother, Anna Loza, after the death of her husband, on about 1550, married the governor of areas of Smolensk. Prince Mikolaj the Black Radziwill took care of his education and sent him to a Calvinist school and later in the Jagiellonian University in Krakw. In 1566 Potii started to work as a judge in Brest, in 1572 he was secretary of king Sigismund II Augustus and later he was appointed tax collector and in 1588 Castellan of Brest. He was also a senator of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth.

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