Dionysius Balaban

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Dionysius Balaban-Tukalskyi (Ukrainian: Діонісій Балабан; ? – 10 May 1663, in Chyhyryn) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus'[a] in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Orthodox Church from 1657 to 1663.

Dionysius Balaban
Metropolitan Dionysius Balaban
ChurchEcumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
MetropolisMetropolis of Kyiv
DioceseKyiv
SeeKyiv (temporary Chyhyryn)
Elected1657
PredecessorSylvester Kosiv
SuccessorJoseph Tukalskyi-Nelyubovych
Other post(s)Bishop of Lutsk and Ostroh (1655)
Bishop of Chelm (1650-1652)
Orders
Ordination1650 (bishop)
Rank
  • Metropolitan (1657)
  • Bishop (1650)
Personal details
Born
Died10 May 1663
Korsun, Cossack Hetmanate
NationalityUkrainian (Ruthenian)
DenominationEastern Orthodox

Biography

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He came from an old noble family from Volhynia. He was known as a religious and political leader. He was a defender of the rights of the metropolis against the attempts of its liquidation by the Patriarchate of Moscow.

Balaban studied at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. He was a bishop of Kholm (1650–1652), Lutsk (1655) and later the Metropolitan of Kyiv (1657–1663).

In 1658 Balaban was forced to relocate his see to Chyhyryn due to occupation of Kyiv by the Muscovite troops. At the same time his place in Kyiv was kept (locum tenens) by the bishop of Chernihiv Lazar Baranovych.

Metropolitan Balaban supported the policies of Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky and was a co-author of the 1658 Treaty of Hadiach. In 1663 he accepted monastic vows of Yuriy Khmelnytskyi to the Kaniv Monastery.

Consecrated bishops

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Notes

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  1. ^ The title is also known as the Metropolis of Kiev, Halych and all Rus' or Metropolis of Kyiv, Halychyna, and All-Rus'. The name "Galicia" is a Latinized form of Halych, one of several regional principalities of the medieval state of Kievan Rus'.

References

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Preceded by Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus'
Patriarchate of Constantinople

1657–1663
Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of Luck and Ostroh
Patriarchate of Constantinople

1655–1657
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Bishop of Chełm
Patriarchate of Constantinople

1650–1651
Succeeded by
post suppressed
taken over by Uniate bishops