Career
Ecclesiastical, political, and literary figure, professor (1650) and rector of the Kyivan Mohyla College, bishop and archbishop of Chernihiv from 1657. He founded schools and monasteries. In 1674 he established the Novhorod-Siversk Press, which in 1679 was moved to Chernihiv.
His sermons, written in a baroque style, were published in Mechanical dukhovny (The Spiritual Sword, 1666) and Truby sloves propovidnykh (The Trumpets of Preaching Words, 1674).
He was temporary Metropolitan of Kyiv, Halychyna and All-Rus" in 1657, 1659-1661 and 1670-1685.