Kyrill Terlecki

Bishop Cyrillus

Kyrill Terlecki (Latin Cyrillus episcopus ; * early 1540s in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ; † 1607 in Lutsk , Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania ) was an Orthodox Bishop of Pinsk (1575–1585) and Lutsk (1585–1596) and Uniate Bishop of Lutsk ( 1596-1607). He was one of the leading representatives of the Union of Brest in 1596.

Life

Kyrill Terlecki was probably born in the early 1540s to a noble family in or near Pinsk . He did not receive an extensive education. In the 1560s he was archpriest in Pinsk. After the death of his wife he became a monk and took the spiritual name Kyrill.

In 1572 he became the Orthodox Bishop of Pinsk and Turow. He was very committed to the rights of the Church and the Orthodox clergy. In 1585 he became bishop of Lutsk . In 1591 he was appointed the first exarch in Ruthenia by Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople.

In 1595 he negotiated with representatives of the Polish king and the apostolic nuncio about a union of the Ruthenian Orthodox eparchies with the Roman Catholic Church. He then traveled to Rome with Bishop Hypatios Pociej , where they received the approval of Pope Clement VIII . In October 1596 he signed the union with other Orthodox clergy.

He remained Bishop of Lutsk of the United Church until his death in 1607.

literature

• AM Ammann: The stay of the Ruthenian bishops Hypathius Pociej and Cyrillus Terlecki in Rome in December and January 1595–1596. In: Orientalia Christiana Periodica. No. 11, 1945, pp. 105-140.

predecessor	Office	successor
Makary Jewłaszewski	Orthodox bishop of Pińsk and Turów 1575–1585	Leontios Pełczycki
Jonasz Borzobohaty-Krasieński	Orthodox bishop of Lutsk 1585–1596	-
-	Uniate Bishop of Lutsk 1596–1607	Izaak Boryskowicz