Simeon of Kiev

Simeon of Kiev (date of birth is uncertain – died 1488) was an Eastern Orthodox primate of the Metropolitan see of Kiev.

Simeon served as a bishop of Polotsk when he was elected as the metropolitan bishop by the council of bishops and later confirmed by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in 1481.[1][2] Evidence of confirmation of Simeon according to Hrushevsky is mentioned in a palinode of Zachary Kopystensky.[2] With this confirmation also was restored so called "modus vivendi".[2]

The tenure of Simeon was challenged by the anti-Eastern Orthodox sentiments of the King of Poland Casimir IV Jagiellon and the 1482 plundering of Kiev by the Crimean Khan Mengli Giray,[1] an ally of the Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow.

Preceded by
Misail Pstruch		 Metropolitan bishop of Kiev, Halych and all Rosiya
1481–1488		 Succeeded by
Jonah Hlezna

References
  1. Symeon, Metropolitan. Encyclopedia of Ukraine.
  2. Hrushevsky, M. Hierarchal relations (ЄРАРХІЧНІ ВІДНОСИНИ). History of Ukraine-Rus.


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