Metropolis of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia (Ruthenian Uniate Church)

Its successor — the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church — continues to operate in the modern states of Ukraine and Poland.

In elections for the office, candidates were chosen by direct vote of the assembled bishops and by the Superior-General (Proto-Archimandrite) of the Basilian order.

Tensions increased when Commonwealth policies turned from relative tolerance to the suppression of the Orthodox church, making the Cossacks strongly anti-Catholic.

The end of the Commonwealth came with the partitions of Poland when the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Habsburg monarchy divided the realm between them.

Following the partitions, its successor states treated the Uniate Church differently: The below is a list of metropolitans of "Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia":[6]