Metropolis of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia (Ruthenian Uniate Church)
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This article is about the metropolis established in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1595–1805). For other metropolises with similar names, see Metropolis of Kiev.
The Metropolis of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia was an ecclesiastical territory or archeparchy of the Ruthenian Uniate Church, a particular Eastern Catholic church. It was erected in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1595/96 following the Union of Brest. It was effectively disestablished by the partitions of Poland (1772–1795). Its successor — the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church — continues to operate in the modern states of Ukraine and Poland. The first metropolitan was Michael Rohoza.