O pochodzeniu metropolity Józefa Sołtana
On the Origins of Metropolitan Józef Sołtan

Summary/Abstract: Metropolitan Józef Sołtan was one of the most prominent hierarchs of the Orthodox Church in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the sixteenth century. Most researchers believe that Józef Sołtan, Smolensk Orthodox Bishop (1503–1507) and later the Metropolitan of Kiev (1507–1521), was the son of Sołtan Alexandrowicz and Wasylissa Chreptowiczówna, and the brother of Alexander Sołtan. The findings presented in the article show that the view of the origin of the family of metropolitan Józef Sołtan from the Łohojska line is fully credible in confrontation with the names of the persons mentioned in the Supraśl book of the deceased. An analysis of the Supraśl book of the dead shows that it contains the names of people from the family of Archbishop Józef Sołtan, and that Eliasz Sołtan, a farmer from the Łohojsk region, is the same person as Metropolitan Józef Sołtan.

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