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PETER MOGILA (c. 1596-1647)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 646 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PETER MOGILA (c. 1596-1647)  , metropolitan of Kiev from 1632, belonged to a noble Wallachian
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family . He studied for some time at the university of Paris, and first became a monk in 1625 . He was the author of a Catechism (Kiev, 1645) and other minor
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works, but is principally celebrated for the Orthodox Confession,
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drawn up at his instance by the Abbot Kosslowski of Kiev, approved at a provincial synod in 164o, and accepted by the patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria and
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Antioch in 1642-1643, and by the synod of Jerusalem in 1672 . (See ORTHODOX EASTERN CHURCH.) There are numerous
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editions of the Confession in
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Russian; it has been edited in Greek and Latin by Panagiotes (Amsterdam, 1662), 'by Hofmann (
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Leipzig, 1695), and by Kimmel (
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Jena, 1843), and there is a German
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translation by Frisch (
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Frankfort, 1727) .

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