Michael Rohoza
Metropolitan of Kiev · Religious Figures · Lived 1540 to 1599 · aged 59
Michael Rohoza was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' in the Patriarchate of Constantinople of the Eastern Orthodox Church from 1588 to 1596.
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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.