Theophanes III. Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1608–44. In 1618, during a journey to Moscow, he stopped in Ukraine and stayed in a Polish-Cossack military camp. In 1620–1, on his return, he spent several months in Ukraine. He had been empowered by the patriarch of Constantinople to decide all religious affairs in eparchies belonging to the jurisdiction of the patriarch of Constantinople in Poland. In Kyiv he consecrated a new hierarchy for the Orthodox church in Ukraine, which had been left with only one bishop following the conversion of most bishops to the Uniate church. The new hierarchy consisted of Metropolitan Yov Boretsky and Bishops Isaia Kopynsky, Meletii Smotrytsky, Isaakii Boryskovych, Ye. Kurtsevych, and P. Ipolytovych. He also granted stauropegion to the Kyiv Epiphany Brotherhood. Later he organized a congress of church dignitaries and priests to proclaim formally the re-establishment of the hierarchy. He stayed at the Trakhtemyriv Monastery until January 1621, when he left for Busha (Podilia) escorted by 3,000 Cossacks led by Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny. There he participated in a local sobor and called on the Cossacks to fight against the Turks and to live in peace with other Orthodox peoples. He then traveled to Moldavia. His person and activities were the subject of controversy in the polemical literature of the period.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Hering, G. Ökumenische Patriarchat und europüaische Politik 1620–1638 (Wiesbaden 1968)

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]