Metropolitan Macarius (1494-1497)

Metropolitan Joseph I Bolgarinovich

Metropolitan Jonah II (1503-1507)

Metropolitan Joseph II Soltan (1507-1522)

Internal Church Relations

The situation in the former Galician Metropolia

Metropolitan Joseph III (1522-1534)

Metropolitan Macarius II (1534-1555)

Question about the Metropolis of Galicia

General characteristics of the situation of the Orthodox Church in the first half of the XVI century: the reign of Sigismund I (1506-1548)

Protestantism in Poland and Lithuania

Sigismund II Augustus led. Prince of Lithuania from 1544 and King of Poland from 1548 to 1572.

Heretics

The Positive Side of Sigismund Augustus' Liberalism for Orthodoxy

Metropolitan Sylvester Belkevich (1556-1567)

Jonah III Protasevich (1568-1576)

Lithuanian State Union (1569). Roman Catholic reaction. Jesuits in Poland

Ilya Ioakimovich Kucha (1576-1579)

Onesiphorus Devocha (Girl) (1579-1589)

Russian Orthodox Education

Ostrog Bible 1580-81

Ostroh school

Brotherhood

Vilna St. Trinity Brotherhood

Fraternal Schools

The literary struggle of the Russians

An episode in the struggle against the Gregorian calendar (1583-1586)

Sigismund III (1587-1632)

The rudiments of the union

Union

Arrival of Patriarch Jeremiah II

Metropolitan Mikhail Rogoza (1589-1596)

An open struggle for and against the union

Political alliance of Orthodox Christians with Protestants

Action in Rome