Yosyf Shumlyansky

Yosyf Shumlyansky (Ukrainian: Йосиф Іван Шумлянський, Polish: Józef Szumlański; 1643–1708) was an Eastern Catholic (previously Orthodox) bishop of the Eparchy of Lviv, Halych and Kamianets-Podilskyi (at the time in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth), best known for restoring unity with the Holy See in 1700.

Biography

Portrait of the Bishop Yosyf Shumlyansky

Yosyf Shumlyansky grew up in the kingdom of Jan Sobieski, and later participated with him in the defense of Vienna. In 1676 (according to other sources - from 1668 ) became Orthodox bishop of Lviv.

In 1667, Yosyf was elected an Orthodox bishop, though he spoke against the bishop of Przemyśl. Against Yosyf was Lviv fraternity, putting their candidate for the chair Jeremiah, who was ordained. Among the candidates came a fierce struggle, which lasted about five years. Only with the accession to the Polish throne of Jan Sobieski, a personal friend of Yosyf, the latter managed to defeat his opponent. In 1675, being the bishop of Lviv, he was appointed administrator and the Diocese of Kyiv. In 1677 in the course of contacts with the papal nuncio in Warsaw Yosyf Shumlyansky secretly adopted Catholicism, what finally it has initiated the implementation of the union.

At the council in 1700 to Yosyf together with the clergy of his diocese to joined the Union of Brest. Lviv brotherhood first refused to follow the bishop and try to protect Orthodoxy, but eventually relented and in 1708 also took the union, with the condition of subordination directly to Roman Curia.

Shumlyansky instructed the clergy to lead metrics, also made instructions on how to behave in the church and outside it. By Church of the textbook "metric" and "Thoughts of the battle with the Turks at Vienna."

Shumlyansky keptin touch with Hetmans Peter Doroshenko and Ivan Mazepa.

References

  • Encyclopedia of Ukraine. In 10 vols. / Editor in Chief Vladimir Kubiyovych. - Paris, New York City: Young Life, 1954-1989
  • Mykola Andrusiak. "Józef Szumlański, pierwszy biskup unicki lwowski, 1667-1708 (Open Library". Openlibrary.org. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
  • "Lemberg". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
  • "Greek Catholics in America". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.