Michael Rohoza
Michael Rohoza | |
|---|---|
| Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' | |
| Church | Eastern Orthodox Church, later Catholic Church |
| Appointed | 1589 |
| Term ended | 1599 |
| Predecessor | Onesiphorus Devochka |
| Successor | Hypatius Pociej in 1599 (Ruthenian Uniate Church) Job Boretsky in 1620 (Ecumenical Patriarchate) |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | August 1589 by Patriarch Jeremias II |
| Personal details | |
| Born | about 1540 |
| Died | 1599 Navahrudak, Grand Duchy of Lithuania |
Michael Rohoza (died 1599) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' in the Patriarchate of Constantinople of the Eastern Orthodox Church from 1588 to 1596. In 1595, he signed the Union of Brest which moved the metropolis from the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople to the jurisdiction of the Holy See. By this act, the Ruthenian Uniate Church was formed in the territory of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. From 1596 until his death in 1599, he held the title of Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' in the Ruthenian Uniate Church.