Raphael Zaborovsky was an influential Eastern Orthodox bishop who served as the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia, and Little Russia. Born in Zboriv in 1677, he received his education at both the Kiev Academy and the Moscow Theological Academy. His clerical career included serving as a naval chaplain and an archimandrite before rising to high ecclesiastical positions. He eventually became a member of the Holy Synod and played a central role in the administration of the church during the eighteenth century.