LIFE OF BISHOP KIRILL (TERLETSKY) AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE VILLAGE OF PERKOVICH (REPUBLIC OF BELARUS)
This article is dedicated to the personality of Bishop Kirill Terletsky, one of the main initiators and leaders of the Brest Church Union in 1596. Almost all church historians of the XIX-XX centuries wrote about him. Depending on denomination, there are quite extreme positions in relation to the activities of the bishop: in Orthodox historiography he appears as an apostate and traitor of the faith, the Uniate Catholic historiography treats him with great respect … In the 1590s, at the beginning of his episcopal ministry, Terletsky bought the Perkovichi estate. At this place, he built the first wooden church, consecrated in honor of the Assumption of the Most Holy Theotokos. It was in this temple, presumably after 1621, that Bishop Cyril found his last refuge. The purpose of this essay is to examine the personality of Bishop Kirill Terletsky and the connection with the village of Perkovichi.