Lev Zalenskyj


Lev Szlubic Zalenskyj was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and Russia of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1694 to his death in 1708.

Lev Szlubic Zalenskyj was born on about 1648 in Lubycz, a village near Lutsk in Volhynia, from a noble family. He entered young in the Order of Saint Basil the Great, and after the novitiate he was assigned to the Supral Lavra. He studied at University of Olomouc and in Vilnius. After having been ordained a priest, athe went to complete his studies in the Greek College in Rome where he studied metaphysic from December 1673 to May 1676, when he returned in his country and was appointed Archimandrite of the Zhyrovichy Monastery.

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