Meletius Smotrytsky

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Meletius Smotrytsky
Church	Roman Catholic Church Patriarchate of Constantinople
Metropolis	Ruthenian Uniate Church Kiev, Galicia and all Rus'
Diocese	Hierapolis (titular) Polotsk
In office	1631–1634 1620–1629
Predecessor	João da Rocha Herman Zahorskyj
Successor	Antonio Tasca Joasaph
Orders
Ordination	October 1620 (bishop) by Theophanes III (Jerusalem)
Rank	Archbishop (1620)
Personal details
Born	Maksym Herasymovych Smotrytsky c. 1577 Smotrych, Podolian Voivodeship, Poland (now Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine)
Died	27 December 1633 (1633-12-28) (aged 56) Derman village, Volhynian Voivodeship, Poland (now Rivne Oblast, Ukraine)
Buried	Derman Monastery
Nationality	Ruthenian (Ukrainian)
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox
Alma mater	Ostroh Academy Vilnius University (1600)

Meletius Smotrytsky (Ukrainian: Мелетій Смотрицький, romanized: Meletij Smotryćkyj; Belarusian: Мялецій Сматрыцкі, romanized: Mialiecij Smatrycki; Russian: Мелетий Смотрицкий, romanized: Meletiy Smotritsky; Polish: Melecjusz Smotrycki), né Maksym Herasymovych Smotrytsky (c. 1577 – 17 or 27 December 1633), Archbishop of Polotsk (Metropolitan of Kyiv), was a writer, a religious and pedagogical activist of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and a Ruthenian linguist whose works influenced the development of the Eastern Slavic languages. His book "Slavonic Grammar with Correct Syntax" (1619)^{[citation needed]} systematized the study of Church Slavonic and became the standard grammar book in Russia right up till the end of the 18th century.^[1]