Meletius Smotrytsky
Meletius Smotrytsky | |
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| Church | Ruthenian Uniate Church Patriarchate of Constantinople |
| Metropolis | Ruthenian Uniate Church Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' |
| Diocese | Hierapolis (titular) Polotsk |
| In office | 1631–1634 1620–1629 |
| Predecessor | João da Rocha Herman Zahorskyj |
| Successor | Antonio Tasca Joasaph |
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| Ordination | October 1620 (bishop) by Theophanes III (Jerusalem) |
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| Born | Maksym Herasymovych Smotrytsky c. 1577 |
| Died | 27 December 1633 (aged 56) Derman village, Volhynian Voivodeship, Poland (now Rivne Oblast, Ukraine) |
| Buried | Derman Monastery |
| Nationality | Ruthenian (Ukrainian) |
| Denomination | Eastern Orthodox later Ruthenian Uniate Church |
| Alma mater | Ostroh Academy Vilnius University (1600) |
Meletius Smotrytsky (Ukrainian: Мелетій Смотрицький, romanized: Meletii Smotrytskyi; Belarusian: Мялецій Сматрыцкі, romanized: Mialiecij Smatrycki Russian: Мелетий Смотрицкий, romanized: Melety Smotritsky Polish: Melecjusz Smotrycki; c. 1577 – 17 or 27 December 1633), Archbishop of Polotsk (Metropolitan of Kyiv), was a writer, a religious and pedagogical activist of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and a Ruthenian linguist whose works influenced the development of the Eastern Slavic languages. His book "Slavonic Grammar with Correct Syntax" (1619) systematized the study of Church Slavonic. It became the standard grammar book in Russia until the end of the 18th century.