Petro Mohyla
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Petro Mohyla or Peter Mogila (Ukrainian: Петро Могила; Romanian: Petru Movilă); December 21, 1596 – December 22, 1646) was a Metropolitan of Kiev and Halych from 1633 until his death. He was born into a Moldavian boyar family — the Movileşti — one that gave Moldavia and Wallachia several rulers, including his father, Ieremia Movilă. His mother, Margareta, was a Hungarian princess.
Life
Petro Mohyla was an important political figure of his time and a profoundly influential theologian in the Eastern Orthodox Christianity, managing to reconcile the religious thesis of three of the most important East Orthodox churches: Constantinople Patriarchate, Russian/Ukrainian and Moldavian ones.
Mohyla initated the foundation of the Kiev-Mohyla Academy in Kiev, one of the oldest and most distinguished academic and theological schools in Eastern Europe. He also fought successfully for the consecration of the Orthodox Church inside the Polish kingdom and the scholasticity and the academism of the Orthodox religious education, along with the setting of a network of printing presses and education institutions. Mohyla believed that the future of Orthodoxy in Ukraine depended on accommodation of Ukraine within the Polish Commonwealth as an equal partner and tried to undermine pro-Russian forces within the Church.
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- [Petro Mohyla] in the online Encyclopedia of Ukraine
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