Job Borecki

Job Borecki or Job Borezki ( Ukrainian Йов Борецький , Jow Borezkyj ; secular name in January , Ioan * to 1560 , Bircza ()? Przemyśl Land , the Kingdom of Poland , † March 2 ^{. Jul} / 12. March  1631 ^greg. In Kiev ) was the Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev (1620–1631).

Life

Jan was born in a noble family from Bircza in what is now southeastern Poland. He studied at the Orthodox Brotherhood School in Lwów and was the rector and teacher of the Latin language there from 1604 to 1605. In 1615 he became rector of the School of the Orthodox Brotherhood in Kiev. In 1618 he became a monk and went to St. Michael's Monastery in Kiev. In 1619 he became Igumen (abbot) there.

In 1620 he was installed as the first Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev since the Brest Union in 1596. The ordination was by Patriarch Theophanes III. from Jerusalem on behalf of the Patriarch of Constantinople and was only possible with military escort by Cossacks . It did not take place in agreement with the Polish king.

Job opposed the United Church and its affiliation with the Catholic Church, but also worked with the United Metropolitan of Kiev to end the split. This failed because of the resistance of the Cossacks.

Job died on March 2nd (12th) 1631 in Kiev and is buried in the cemetery of the Michael monastery.

In 2008 he was canonized by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchate.

Publications

Some writings have come down from Job, translations of Greek spiritual literature, poems, texts about Orthodox saints. In 1621 he wrote Protestacja .

Web links

• Boretsky, Yov Encyclopedia of Ukraine
• Йов (Борецкий) Православная энциклопедия, 2007

predecessor	Office	successor
Michael Rahoza	Metropolitan of Kiev 1620 - 1631	Isaiah Kopinski