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'''Cassian Sakowicz''', also known as '''Kasjan Sakowicz''' (1578–1647), was a Polish–Ruthenian Orthodox activist, and later a Catholic theologian, writer and polemicist.

==Biography== Cassian Sakowicz was born in family of an Orthodox priest as Kalikst Isakowicz.<ref>''Szegda M''. Sakowicz (Isakowicz) Kalikst, imię zakonne Kasjan (ok. 1587—1647) // Polski Słownik Biograficzny.&nbsp;— Wrocław&nbsp;— Warszawa&nbsp;— Kraków&nbsp;: Zakład Narodowy Imienia Ossolińskich, Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1993.&nbsp;— T. XXXIV/….&nbsp;— Zeszyt 14….&nbsp;— S. 343—345.</ref> He was born in a town of Podtelisz<ref name=ehu>Dzyuba, O. ''[http://resource.history.org.ua/cgi-bin/eiu/history.exe?&I21DBN=EIU&P21DBN=EIU&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=eiu_all&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=0&S21P02=0&S21P03=TRN=&S21COLORTERMS=0&S21STR=Sakovych_K Cassian Sakowicz (САКОВИЧ КАСІЯН)]''. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine.</ref> (today village Potelych, Lviv Oblast), Belz Voivodeship (Palatinatus Belzensis). He finished the Zamojski Academy and Jagiellonian University<ref name=ehu/> at the ruler's court in Przemysl, under King Athanasius' protection. Sakowicz was a private teacher of Adam Kisiel and an activist of the Enlightenment movement of Orthodox brotherhood.<ref name=ehu/> Sakowicz was the rector of the Orthodox brotherhood school in Kyiv (predecessor of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) from 1620 to 1624 where he taught poetry, rhetoric and philosophy.<ref name=ehu/> In 1624, he moved to Lublin where he was preaching in an Eastern orthodox brotherhood church.<ref name=ehu/> Later Sakowicz entwined his life first with the Uniate Church in 1625 converted to Greek Catholicism (in 1625 to 1639, he was an Uniate archimandrite of the Savior-Transfiguration Monastery in Dubno).<ref name=ehu/> In 1641, after arriving to Kraków in 1640<ref name=ehu/> and with the permission of Pope Urban VIII, he changed to the Roman rite<ref name=ehu/> and was the chaplain of the Augustinian monastery of Saint Catherine in Kraków. Sakowicz died in Kraków in 1647.<ref>Bibliography of Polish Literature - New Korbut, Vol 3 Old Polish Literature, State University Press, London, 1965, pp.&nbsp;198–199</ref>

Sakowicz is an author of the 1622 "poems for mourning funeral of the noble knight Petro Konashevych Sahaidachny" that were read by students of the Kyiv brotherhood school at the 1622 funeral of Hetman Petro Konashevych Sahaidachny.<ref name=ehu/>

==Works== Sakowicz was the author of many poems, theological treaties, and political treaties. His preferred writing languages were Ukrainian and Polish.<ref>Енциклопедія українознавства, т. 7, Львів 1998, с. 2,692.</ref>

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==External links== * {{Google books |id=Vuc5AAAAMAAJ |page=314 |title=Historya literatury polskiey }} * http://www.nbuv.gov.ua/portal/Soc_Gum/dkz/2011_14-15/12.pdf * {{Google books |id=9p6cX0eXTUwC |page= |title=Epanorthosis abo perspektiwa, y obiasnienie błędow, here zyey, y Zabobonow }} * (in Ukrainian) Cassian Sakowicz. "[http://litopys.org.ua/suspil/sus47.htm Poems for mourning funeral of the noble knight Petro Konashevych Sahaidachny(ВІРШІ НА ЖАЛІСНИЙ ПОГРЕБ ШЛЯХЕТНОГО РИЦАРЯ ПЕТРА КОНАШЕВИЧА-САГАЙДАЧНОГО,)]. litopys.org.ua.

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