Gedeon Brolnitskyj (Polish: Gedeon Brolnicki; 1528–1618) was a bishop of the Ruthenian Uniate Church and a monk belonged to the Lauryshava Monastery and since 1601 Archbishop of Polotsk.
Biography
In 1596 Brolnitskyj was an Orthodox Archimandrite of the Lauryshava Monastery (in today's Belarus) and converted from Orthodoxy to Greek Catholicism, signing an act of the Union of Brest.[Footnotes В.А. Теплова, З.И.Зуева, Уния в документах, Minsk 1997, p. 139.]
On May 26, 1601 Gideon Brolicki was nominated Archbishop of Polotsk.Blazheyovsky D. Hierarchy of the Kievan Church (861-1996). - Lviv: Kamenyar, 1996. - P. 281.] On August 6, 1601, he was ordained bishop and remained as Catholic Uniate bishop till his death in 1618.
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External links http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbroln.html