Mykola Skorodynskyi

Mykola Skorodynskyi
Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Lviv, Halych and Kamianets-Podilskyi
Church Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
In office 28 September 1798 – 23 May 1805
Predecessor Petro Bilyanskyi
Successor Antin Anhelovych
Other posts Rector of Lviv University (1804–1805)
Orders
Ordination 6 January 1782 (Priest)
by Petro Bilyanskyi
Consecration 10 March 1799 (Bishop)
by Porfyriy Skarbek-Vazhynskyi
Personal details
Birth name Mykola Mykhaylovych Skorodynskyi
Born (1751-01-15)15 January 1751
Zboriv, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (present day Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine)
Died 23 May 1805(1805-05-23) (aged 54)
Lviv, Austrian Empire (present day Ukraine)

Mykola Skorodynskyi (Ukrainian: Микола Скородинський, Polish: Mikołaj Skorodyński; 15 January 1751 – 23 May 1805) was an Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was the Eparchial Bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Lviv, Halych and Kamianets-Podilskyi from 1798 to 1805.

Life

Born in Zboriv, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (present day Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine) in the family of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest Fr. Mykhaylo Skorodynskyi in 1751. He was ordained a priest on 6 January 1782 by Bishop Petro Bilyanskyi. He was a professor in the Lviv University and in the Lviv Theological Seminary and after – vice-rector in the same Seminary. Also served as a vicar general in his tative Eparchy (1787–1798).[1]

He was confirmed by the Holy See as an Eparchial Bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Lviv, Halych and Kamianets-Podilskyi on 28 September 1798. He was consecrated to the Episcopate on 10 March 1799. The principal consecrator was Bishop Porfyriy Skarbek-Vazhynskyi.[2]

He died in Lviv on 23 May 1805.

References

  1. Блажейовський, Дмитро (1996). Ієрархія Київської Церкви (861—1996). Львів: Каменяр. p. 270.
  2. "Bishop Mikolaj Skorodynski †". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Petro Bilyanskyi
Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Lviv, Halych and Kamianets-Podilskyi
1798–1805
Succeeded by
Antin Anhelovych
(as Metropolitan-Archbishop of Halych, Lviv and Kamianets)
Educational offices
Preceded by
Jan Zemantsek
Rector of Lviv University
1804—1805
Succeeded by
Franciszek Kodesch



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