Sylvester Kosiv
Sylvester Kossów | |
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| Native name | Silvester Kosaw |
| Church | Ruthenian Orthodox |
| Metropolis | Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' |
| See | Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople |
| Elected | 1647 |
| In office | 1647–1657 |
| Predecessor | Petro Mohyla |
| Successor | Dionysius Balaban |
| Other posts | Bishop of Mstsislaw, Orsha, and Mahiliow (1635–1647) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Stefan-Adam Kosaw Zharobychi, Vitebsk Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
| Died | 13 April 1657 |
| Buried | Dormition Cathedral (Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra) |
| Denomination | Eastern Orthodox |
| Alma mater | Zamość Academy |
Sylvester Kossów, Kosiv or Kosov (secular name Stefan-Adam Kosaw, Old Ukrainian: Сильвестр Косов, Polish: Sylwester Kossów; born Zharobychi, Vitebsk Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, died 13 April 1657) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Orthodox Church from 1647 to 1657. He reigned during the Khmelnytsky uprising.