Background
He was born in Polotsk province. He went to school at the monastery of the Dominicans in the town Ushachi, there he came
into the Order of Basilian
He was born in Polotsk province. He went to school at the monastery of the Dominicans in the town Ushachi, there he came
into the Order of Basilian
From 1784 till 1809 he was the Archbishop of Polotsk. Since 1795 after the abolition of Uniate dioceses (except
for the Polotsk) by Caterina II, he became the actual leader of the Greek-Catholics of the Russian Empire.
In 1806-09 Lisouski was the Uniate Metropolitan but was not approved by the Pope). In the church life he relied on the white clergy and elected them to governing positions in opposition to the Bazilians. He contributed to the creation of the major seminary in Vilna University in1803, opened the seminary for the secular clergy in the village of Strun` in 1803, near Polotsk. He was an adherent of
purification of the rites of the Latin borrowings. Lisouski made the Russian Emperor Alexander 1 create the separate board for the Department of Uniates (1805) inside the Roman Catholic College, which headed himself. Lisowski’s policy of convergence between the Greek-Catholic Church the Orthodox Church was continued in the years 1820-30 by the Uniate church leaders A.Zubko, I.Krasouski, B. Luzhynski, I. Syamashka and others.