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Gedeon (Svyatopolk-Chetvertynsky)
Gedeon (Svyatopolk-Chetvertynsky) was a Ruthenian prince and religious figure and Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Little Russia (Ruthenia). He became the first Metropolitan of Kiev of the Russian Orthodox Church with help of the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host Ivan Samoylovych.
Gedeon was born as Hryhoriy to starosta of Racibórz Zachary Svyatopolk-Chetvertynsky and Regina Chrenicka in Volhynian Voivodeship, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
From 1660 to 1684 he was a bishop of Lutsk and Ostroh in Volhynia (today Volyn diocese).
Gedeon (surname)
Gedeon is a name, derived from the prophet Gideon in the Hebrew bible's Book of Judges. It is the surname of:
- Louis Gedeon (1877–1950), U.S. Army sergeant
- Joe Gedeon (1893–1941), American baseball player
- Veronica Gedeon (1917–37), American model
- Elmer Gedeon (1917–44), American track-and field athlete, baseball player and World War II bomber pilot.
- Wolfgang Gedeon (born 1947), German conspiracy theorist and politician.
- Erik Gedeon (born 1963), Swiss composer
- Saša Gedeon (born 1970), Czech film director.
- Patrik Gedeon (born 1975), Czech national team football player.
- Ghassan Gedeon-Achi (born 1993), Lebanese–Canadian alpine skier
- Jean Gedeon, American ballerina, ballet teacher and artistic director