The Hetman and the Metropolitan : cooperation between State and Church in the Time of Varlaam Jasyns'kyj

Jasyns'kyj was the Metropolite of Kyiv in the time of Ivan Mazepa. The author analyses the available documents and the circumstancies of his ecclesiastical and political dealing and comcludes that the ides of symphony between state and church dominated the Ukrainian intellectual milieu of the time. Jasyns'kyj was a defender of the authonomy of the Kyivan Netropolitan chair from the Moscow Patriarchate for the continuation of the aleagence to Constantinopole. When this was no loonger possible after 1686, he certainly hoped that the authonomy of Ivan Mazepa's Hetmanate might guarantee the specificity of the Metropolitanate. Fortunately enough for him, he died before Mazepa's tragic end.