THE JESUIT COLLEGE FROM KAMIANETS-PODILSKYI AND ITS FIRST ATTEMPT TO ORGANIZE A JESUIT MISSION IN MOLDAVIA (1610) ACCORDING TO NEW EVIDENCE FOUND IN THE ARCHIVUM ROMANUM SOCIETATIS IESU
THE JESUIT COLLEGE FROM KAMIANETS-PODILSKYI AND ITS FIRST ATTEMPT TO ORGANIZE A JESUIT MISSION IN MOLDAVIA (1610) ACCORDING TO NEW EVIDENCE FOUND IN THE ARCHIVUM ROMANUM SOCIETATIS IESU

Summary/Abstract: Shortly after the foundation of the Jesuit College from Kamianets-Podilskyi in Southern Poland at the beginning of the 17th century, the Polish Jesuits tried to establish a permanent mission in Moldavia, too. Analysing new evidence discovered in the Jesuits archives in Rome, the present paper tries to reconstruct the circumstances of the Jesuits’ arrival in Iași in 1610, their meetings with the Prince Constantine Mohyla (1607-1611), the voivode of Moldavia, with his mother, Lady Elisabeth Mohyla, and with the Court, the missionary expeditions undertaken in the surroundings of the capital, as well as the events that followed the dethronement of the ruler and the installation of Stephen II Tomșa (1611-1615) on the throne by the Turks, including the attempts of the Mohyla family – now refugees in Poland – to seize the power again in Moldavia.

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