Lazar Baranovych

Lazar Baranovych
ChurchEcumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
MetropolisMetropolis of Kyiv
DioceseChernihiv and Novhorod-Siverkyi
SeeChernihiv
Elected8 March 1657
Retired1692
PredecessorZosimas Prokopovych
SuccessorTheodosius Polonytskyi-Uhlytskyi
Orders
Ordination8 March 1657 (bishop)
by Gedeon of Suceava
Rank
  • Archbishop (1667)
  • Bishop (1657)
Personal details
BornLuka Vasylyovych Baranovych
1620
Died13 September 1693(1693-09-13) (aged 72–73)
Buriedat Boris and Gleb Cathedral, Chernihiv
NationalityUkrainian (Ruthenian)
DenominationEastern Orthodox
ResidenceChernihiv
Alma materWilno Theological Academy
Kalisz Jesuit Collegium

Lazar Baranovych or Baranovich (Ukrainian: Лазар Баранович, Russian: Лазарь Баранович, Polish: Łazarz Baranowicz; 1620 – 3 (13) September 1693 in Chernihiv, Cossack Hetmanate, Tsardom of Russia) was a Ruthenian Eastern Orthodox archbishop of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and then of the Tsardom of Russia. An ecclesiastical, political, and literary figure, his activities contributed to the development of cultural elite in Ukraine during the tenure of hetman Ivan Mazepa.