Yelysei Pletenetskyi, or Yelysei Pletenetsky (1550 – 29 October 1624), also known as Elizeusz (Elisius) Pletenecki, was a Ukrainian archimandrite of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He served as archimandrite of a monastery in the Pinsk region from 1595 to 1599, and of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra from 1599 until his death.
During the latter tenure he worked hard at reforming the monastery, and secured the right of stauropegion for it. He established a hospital for the poor, a printing house, and the Radomysl paper mill.
Pletenetskyi worked during the times when his Ruthenian Church signed the 1595 Union of Brest and many dioceses (eparchies) along with the metropolitan bishop (episcope) aligned themselves with the Roman Holy See as the Ruthenian Uniate Church. The Reverend Yelysei was against the union.
Pletenetsky attracted a group of notable church and cultural figures at the monastery, including Pamva Berynda, Stepan Berynda, Job Boretsky (later Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus'), Havrylo Dorofeievych, Zacharias Kopystensky, Taras Zemka, and Lavrentij Zizanij.
In 1620 Reverend Elisius played a key role in petitioning to Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophanes III who stopped in Kyiv in re-establishing of new Eastern Orthodox bishop hierarchy by blessing a new metropolitan bishop Job Boretsky.
Right before his death in 1624, Pletenetsky accepted the Great Schema under name of Euthymius and died as hiero-schemamonk. On 17 February 1625 hieroschemamonk Euthymius was buried in the newly restored Holy Dormition temple of the Kyiv Cave Monastery next to the tombstone of the Great Duke of Lithuania Skirgaila and Duchess Eupraxia of Kiev, a sister of Volodymyr Monomakh. His burial did not survive.
On 7 November 2024, he was canonized by the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
References
- MYSTETSKYI ARSENAL HISTORY.
- "Pletenetsky, Yelysei". Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
- Документи засідання Священного Синоду 7 листопада 2024 р. www.pomisna.info. 7 November 2024
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| Preceded byNikephoros Tur | Archimandrite of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra 1599–1624 |
Succeeded byZacharias Kopystensky |
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