Muzhylovsky, Andrii

Muzhylovsky, Andrii [Mužylovs'kyj, Andrij], b and d ? Churchman, theologian, and polemicist of the first half of the 17th century; father of Syluian Muzhylovsky. He was an Orthodox priest in Slutsk, Belarus, and then a hieromonk of the Kyivan Cave Monastery (1631). In 1631 he was the Cossack candidate for the office of metropolitan of Kyiv, but he was opposed by King Sigismund III Vasa, who sent a letter to the voivode of Kyiv voivodeship to block the candidacy. He participated in the Kyiv church council of 1628 that condemned Meletii Smotrytsky’s conversion to Catholicism, and he wrote the polemic Antidot ... (Antidote ..., 1629), in which he repudiated Smotrytsky’s Apologia and defended the Orthodox leaders Kostiantyn Vasyl Ostrozky and Stepan Zyzanii.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]