Rostotsky, Teodosii

Rostotsky, Teodosii [Ростоцький, Теодосій; Rostoc'kyj, Teodosij], b 1725 near Slonim, Belarus, d 25 January 1805 in Saint Petersburg. Uniate metropolitan of Kyiv. After studies at Saint Athanasius College in Rome, he was ordained (1754) and became a professor of philosophy and theology in Volodymyr-Volynskyi. Twice the protohegumen of the Lithuanian province of the Basilian monastic order, he was made bishop of Kholm in 1784 (see Kholm eparchy) and metropolitan of Kyiv in 1788. He also became the first Uniate hierarch named to the Polish Senate (1790). After the third partition of Poland (1795) Rostotsky was confined by Catherine II to the city of Saint Petersburg. He stayed there, maintaining contact with his see through diplomatic correspondence, until his death.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]