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Felicjan Filip Wołodkowicz

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Felicjan Filip Wołodkowicz (6 June 1698 – 12 February 1778) was the "Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia"[a]

On 1731 Wolodkowicz was ordained by Primate of the Uniate church Athanasius Szeptycki as a bishop of Chełm.

On 22 November 1758 Wolodkowicz was appointed a bishop of Volodymyr and Brest.

On 18 July 1762 he was confirmed as the Metropolitan bishop of Kyiv, Galicia, and all Ruthenia.

He consecrated following bishops Athanasius Szeptycki, Heraclius Lisanski, Cyprian Stecki, and Patriarch Giorgio Maria Lascaris.

Hrebnicki died in 1762 at a residence of the Polotsk Archbishops that he built in village of Strunie (today in Polotsk District).

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  1. ^ The title is also known as the Metropolis of Kiev, Halych and all Rus' or Metropolis of Kyiv, Halychyna, and All-Rus'. The name "Galicia" is a Latinized form of Halych, one of several regional principalities of the medieval state of Kievan Rus'.

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Ruthenian Uniate Church titles
Preceded by Bishop of Chelm
1731 – 1758
Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of Wlodzimierz and Bresc
1756 – 1778
Succeeded by
Preceded by Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia
1762 – 1778
Succeeded by