Ivan Lyatyshevskyi ( uk, Іван Лятишевський; 17 October 1879 – 27 November 1957) was a

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hierarch. He was an auxiliary bishop of the

Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk The Archparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk (or Ivano-Frankivsk of the Ukrainians) is an Archeparchy (Eastern Catholic Archdiocese) of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ''sui iuris'' (Byzantine rite in Ukrainian language) in Ukraine. It depends on the Ro ...

and titular bishop of

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from 1929 to 1957. He was born in

Bohorodchany Bohorodchany ( uk, Богородча́ни, translit=Bohorodčany, ) is an urban-type settlement in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, several miles from Ivano-Frankivsk. It hosts the administration of Bohorodchany settlement hroma ...

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(present-day –

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вська о́бласть, translit=Ivano-Frankivska oblast), also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вщина), is an administrative divisions of Ukrain ...

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) in 1879 in the family of Yulian and Anna (née Halavay) Lyatyshevskyi and graduated of the Theology at

Lviv University The University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський університет, Lvivskyi universytet; pl, Uniwersytet Lwowski; german: Universität Lemberg, briefly known as the ''Theresianum'' in the early 19th century), presently the Ivan Franko Na ...

and

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. He then continued in the Collegium Canisianum and made a defence of the doctoral thesis in 1905. He was

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on 20 October 1907 by Blessed Bishop

Hryhoriy Khomyshyn Hryhoriy Khomyshyn (also ''Hryhorij Khomyshyn'', uk, Григорій Лукич Хомишин, pl, Grzegorz Chomyszyn) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and hieromartyr. Khomyshyn was born on 25 March 1867 in the village of Hadynkivtsi, ...

for the Eparchy of Stanislaviv. After ordination he served a short time in a parish work, but later was a teacher and professor. He was appointed by the

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as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stanislaviv on 24 November 1929. He was

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to the

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on 26 January 1930 in Stanislaviv. The principal

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was Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi, and the principal co-consecrators were Blessed Bishop

and Blessed Bishop

Josaphat Kotsylovsky Josaphat Joseph Kotsylovsky ( uk, Йосафат Йосиф Коциловський) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and martyr. Kotsylovsky was born 3 March 1876 in the village of Pakoszowka (then Austria-Hungary, now Poland), of the ...

. He was arrested on 11 April 1945 alongside other Ukrainian Catholic bishops, because the Communist regime abolished the Greek-Catholic Church, and exiled in Siberia. He was released in 1955. He died in Stanislaviv on 27 November 1957.

References

1879 births 1957 deaths Clergy from Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians University of Lviv alumni University of Vienna alumni 20th-century Eastern Catholic bishops Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Ukrainian Eastern Catholics Prisoners and detainees of the Soviet Union {{UkrainianGreekCatholic-bishop-stub