Innocent Giesel

Biography Gizel family became prominent serving the noble lords of Volhynia, then part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Innocent Gizel worked as a subordinate of metropolitan Peter Mohyla, managing the printing house of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. Between 1646 and 1656 he served as hegumen of the St. Nicholas Monastery in Kyiv. During the 1640s Gizel was a rector of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy and introduced the first full course of philosophy (Opus totius philosophiae) in the establishment. In 1656, he was appointed archmandrite of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.

Works Publications First Church Slavonic printed publication of Kyiv Pechersk Patericon (1661, 1678)