Volodymyr-Brest Eparchy

The Volodymyr-Brest Eparchy ( Latin : Eparchia Vladimirensis-Brestinis ) was a Ukrainian-Greek Catholic eparchy from 1596 to 1839 in Volhynia and Podlachia in what is now Ukraine and Belarus . Its seat was in Volodymyr-Wolynskyi .

history

The Volodymyr-Brest Eparchy was formed after the Union of Brest in 1596 from the Orthodox Volodymyr-Brest Eparchy . It was dissolved on March 25, 1839.

The Volodymyr-Brest Eparchy was subordinate to the Kiev Archepark as a suffragan . The eparchy included Volhynia and the northern part of Podlasie .

Bishops of Volodymyr-Brest

• Hypatius Pociej OSBM , 1596–1599, then Metropolitan of Kiev
• Joachim Morochowski OSBM, 1613-1631
• Józef Bakowiecki-Mokosiej OSBM, 1632–1654
• Jan Michał Pociej OSBM, 1655–1666
• Benedikt Gliński OSBM, 1666–1678
• Lew Ślubicz-Załęski OSBM, 1679–1708
• Leon Kiszka OSBM, 1711-1728
• Korneliusz Lebiecki OSBM, 1729-1730
• Teodozy Teofil Godebski OSBM, 1730-1756
• Felicjan Filip Wołodkowicz OSBM, 1758–1778
• Antoni Młodowski OSBM, 1778–1778
• Symeon Młocki OSBM, 1779-1795
• Jozafat Bułhak OSBM, 1798–1838

See also

• Volodymyr-Wolynskyj and Kovel Eparchy ( Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate )
• List of former Catholic dioceses

literature

• Kazimierz Dola: Catalog arcybiskupów i biskupów rezydencjalnych eparchii polskich obrządku grecko-unickiego od Unii Brzeskiej (1596) do roku 1945 , in Historia Kościoła w Polsce t. II 1764-1945 , cz. 2 1918-1945, Warsaw 1979, pp. 304-311.
• Dmytro Błażejowśkyj: Hierarchy of the Kyivan Church (861–1990) , Rome 1990.