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Zofia of Słuck, the Glossary

Zofia Radziwiłł (née Olelkowicz), also Zofia of Słuck (1 May 1585 – 19 March 1612) is a Polish-Lithuanian Orthodox Christian saint.^[1]

Algirdas

Algirdas (Alhierd; Olherd, Olgerd, Olgierd; – May 1377) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1345 to 1377.

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Belarus

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.

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Birth name

A birth name is the name given to a person upon birth.

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Brest, formerly Brest-Litovsk and Brest-on-the-Bug, is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the Polish town of Terespol, where the Bug and Mukhavets rivers meet, making it a border town.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Chervyen

Chervyen or Cherven (Červień,; Червень; Czerwień; Červenė), previously known as Ihumen (label) until 1923, is a town in Minsk Region, Belarus.

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Chodkiewicz

The House of Chodkiewicz (Хадкевіч; Chodkevičius) was one of the most influential noble families of Lithuanian-Ruthenian descent within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th and 17th century.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.

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Eastern Orthodoxy

Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.

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Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

The ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople (translit) is the archbishop of Constantinople and primus inter pares (first among equals) among the heads of the several autocephalous churches that compose the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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Holy See

The Holy See (url-status,; Santa Sede), also called the See of Rome, Petrine See or Apostolic See, is the jurisdiction of the pope in his role as the Bishop of Rome.

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Interdenominational marriage

Interdenominational marriage, sometimes called an inter-sect marriage or ecumenical marriage, is marriage between spouses professing a different denomination of the same religion.

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Janusz Radziwiłł (1579–1620)

Janusz Radziwiłł (Jonušas Radvila; 2 July 1579 – 3 December 1620) was a noble and magnate of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Zofia of Słuck and Janusz Radziwiłł (1579–1620) are Radziwiłł family.

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Jerzy Radziwiłł (1556–1600)

Prince Jerzy Radziwiłł (Jurgis Radvila; 31 May 1556 – 21 January 1600) was a Polish–Lithuanian magnate and Imperial Reichsfürst from the Radziwiłł family. Zofia of Słuck and Jerzy Radziwiłł (1556–1600) are Radziwiłł family.

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Kapyl

Kapyl (Kapyĺ; Kopyl; Kopyl; Kapylius; קאפּוליע) is a town in Minsk Region, Belarus.

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Kiszka family

The Kiszka family (plural Kiszkowie) was a noble family (szlachta) and one of the most powerful families (magnates) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Krzysztof "Piorun" Radziwiłł

Prince Krzysztof Radziwiłł, epithet "Piorun" ("Lightning") (Kristupas Radvila „Perkūnas“, 1547–1603) was a Reichsfürst of the Holy Roman Empire and a member of the nobility of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Zofia of Słuck and Krzysztof "Piorun" Radziwiłł are Radziwiłł family.

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Lithuanian nobility

The Nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania or the Szlachta of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (bajorija, šlėkta, szlachta Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego) was historically a legally privileged hereditary elite class in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth (including during period of foreign rule 1795–1918) consisting of Lithuanians from Lithuania Proper; Samogitians from Duchy of Samogitia; following Lithuania's eastward expansion into what is now Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, many ethnically Ruthenian noble families (boyars); and, later on, predominantly Baltic German families from the Duchy of Livonia and Inflanty Voivodeship.

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March 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 18 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 20 All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 1 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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Minsk

Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers.

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Nyasvizh

Nyasvizh or Nesvizh (Niasviž,; Несвиж; Nesvyžius; Nieśwież; ניעסוויז; Nesvisium) is a town in Minsk Region, Belarus.

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Olelkovich

The House of Olelkovich was a princely family from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 15th and 16th centuries. Zofia of Słuck and Olelkovich are Olelkovich family.

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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Poland–Lithuania, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the First Polish Republic, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch in real union, who was both King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

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Pope Clement VIII

Pope Clement VIII (Clemens VIII; Clemente VIII; 24 February 1536 – 3 March 1605), born Ippolito Aldobrandini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 2 February 1592 to his death, in March 1605.

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Radziwiłł family

The House of Radziwiłł (Radvila; Radzivił; Radziwill) is a Polish princely family of Lithuanian origin, and one of the most powerful magnate families originating from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later also prominent in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.

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Reformed Christianity

Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Western Church.

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Samogitia

Samogitia, often known by its Lithuanian name Žemaitija (Samogitian: Žemaitėjė; see below for alternative and historical names) is one of the five cultural regions of Lithuania and formerly one of the two core administrative divisions of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania alongside Lithuania proper.

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Sigismund III Vasa

Sigismund III Vasa (Zygmunt III Waza, Žygimantas Vaza; 20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 N.S.) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden and Grand Duke of Finland from 1592 to 1599.

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Slutsk

Slutsk (Sluck; Слуцк; Słuck, Sluckas, Yiddish/Hebrew: סלוצק) is a town in Minsk Region, Belarus.

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Szlachta

The szlachta (Polish:; Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and, as a social class, dominated those states by exercising political rights and power.

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Union of Brest

The Union of Brest took place in 1595-1596 and represented an agreement by Eastern Orthodox Churches in the Ruthenian portions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to accept the Pope's authority while maintaining Eastern Orthodox liturgical practices, leading to the formation of the Ruthenian Uniate Church, which currently exists as the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church.

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Vilnius

Vilnius, previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous city in the Baltic states.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zofia_of_Słuck

Also known as Princess Sophia of Slutsk, Saint Sophia of Slutsk, Saint Zofia of Słuck, Sophia Olelkovich Radziwill, Sophia Olelkovich Slutsk, Sophia Olelkowicz Slutsk, St. Sophia of Slutsk, Zofia Olelkowicz Radziwill, Zofia Olelkowicz Slucka, Zofia Olelkowicz Słucka.

Zofia of Słuck, the Glossary

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See also

16th-century Lithuanian nobility

16th-century Lithuanian people

16th-century Lithuanian women

17th-century Lithuanian people

17th-century Lithuanian women

Belarusian saints

Eastern Orthodox saints from Belarus

Lithuanian saints

Olelkovich family

People from Nowogródek Voivodeship (1507–1795)

People from Slutsk

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