Number DOI: http://doi.org/10.33209/2519-4348-2707-9627-2021-9-102

VB. – № 9, 2021. – P. 199-211

Summary

In recent years, Ukrainian historical science has paid special attention to the study of well-known personalities in history. One of the most famous Ukrainian patrons, a native of the ancient Volyn noble family Gulevych – Halshka Hulevychivna, who did a lot for the preservation and development of the Orthodox Church, belongs to such significant figures. Due to this, on May 26, 2021, during the second meeting of the Synodal Commission on the Canonization of Saints of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, a proposal for the future canonization of Halshka Hulevychivna by the Orthodox Church was considered and supported. The article covers the origin, life and religious and social activities of Gulevych Halshka Vasylivna. She was originated from the ancient richest Ukrainian noble family of Gulevych in Volyn, the coat of arms of Novyna, known since the XV century. Since the time of Prince Svydrygail, its representatives have held various governments in Volhynia and other lands of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, achieved high church positions, and owned many settlements. She received her primary education at the Lviv Fraternal School, where she became acquainted with the basics of the Orthodox faith, grammar of the native, Greek and Latin languages. After graduating from school she continued her studies at the Ostroh Academy. Halshka Hulevych is a well-known founder of the Kyiv Brotherhood School, which after merging with the Lavra School in 1632 was called the Kyiv-Brotherhood Collegium, and later was called the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. She took care of monasticism, was a donator of Kyiv and Lutsk fraternal monasteries. At the end of her life she returned to Volyn, where she was born. According to her will, she was buried in the crypt of the Lutsk Fraternal Church. Thanks to significant donations for the development of church fraternities, fraternal schools and monasteries, Halshka Hulevychivna made a significant contribution to the development and strengthening of the Orthodox Church in the Ukrainian lands at a difficult time for Orthodoxy in the early seventeenth century.

Key words: Halshka, Orthodox Church, founder, fraternal schools, monasticism.

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