TY - JOUR TI - On the Origins of Metropolitan Józef Sołtan AU - Mironowicz, Antoni TI - On the Origins of Metropolitan Józef Sołtan AB - Metropolitan Józef Sołtan was one of the most prominent hierarchs of the Orthodox Church in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th century. Most researchers believe that Józef Sołtan, Smolensk Orthodox Bishop (1503-1507) and later the Metropolitan of Kiev (1507-1521), was the son of Sołtan Alexandrowicz and Wasylissa Chreptowiczówna, brother of Alexander Sołtan. The findings presented in the article show that the view of the origin of the family of metropolitan Józef Sołtan from the Łohojska line is fully credible in confrontation with the names of the persons mentioned in the Supraśl book of the deceased. An analysis of the Supraśl book of the dead shows that it contains the names of people from the family of Archbishop Józef Sołtan, and that Eliasz Sołtan, a farmer from the Łohojsk region, is the same person as Metropolitan Józef Sołtan. VL - 2019 IS - Volume 52, Issue 4 PY - 2019 SN - 0137-2432 C1 - 2084-4077 SP - 309 EP - 324 DO - 10.4467/20844077SR.19.022.11629 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/o-pochodzeniu-metropolity-jozefa-soltana KW - Józef Sołtan KW - Kiev metropolitan KW - the Sołtan family