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==