Antin Anhelovych ( uk, Антін Ангелович, pl, Antoni Angełłowicz; 14 April 1756 – 9 August 1814) was the first

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of the re-built

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from 1808 until his death in 1814.

Life

Antin Anhelovych was born on 14 April 1756 in Hryniv, near

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, now in

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. He studied at the Barbareum (a

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college in

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) and in 1793 he became the first rector of the Greek Catholic Theological

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. In 1794 he became professor of dogma and in 1796 rector of

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. In 1795 he was appointed eparch of Eparchy of Przemyśl and so consecrated a

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on 14 February 1796. by Bishop Porfyriy Skarbek-Vazhynskyi of Chełm. In 1798 he was appointed administrator of the

eparchy, in 1804 administrator of the

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eparchy, and in 1805 administrator of both the Lviv and Kholm eparchies. Since 1772 the Western Ukraine was under the

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of the Habsburg monarchy) and Emperor

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on 11 September 1806 took the decision to re-establish Galician Metropoly. In this way these territories were split from the jurisdiction of the main Metropolis of

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of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which was suffering under the

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(actually in 1839 the Greek-Catholic church was dissolved in the Russian Empire, and all its property was transferred to the Orthodox state church). Pope Pius VII approved this split on 24 February 1807 elevating the

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of Lviv to the rank of

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and granting it the same rights of the Metropolis of Kyiv. On 16 March 1808 Angelovych was appointed the first Greek-Catholic Metropolitan in Lviv. The enthronement occurred on 25 September 1808. Antin Anhelovych died in

on 9 August 1814.

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