Kostyantyn Chekhovych ( uk, Костянтин Чехович, pl, Konstanty Czechowicz; 3 January 1847 – 28 April 1915) was a

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hierarch in present-day

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and

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. He was the Eparchial Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Przemyśl, Sambir and Sanok from 1896 to 1915. Born in Devyatyr,

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(present day –

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) in the family of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest Yosyf and his wife Antonina (née Paslavska) in 1847. He was

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on 5 January 1873 by Bishop

Ivan Stupnytskyi Ivan Stupnytskyi ( uk, Іван Сатурнін Ступницький, pl, Jan Saturnin Stupnicki; 16 October 1816 – 22 December 1890) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch in present-day Ukraine and Poland. ...

as married priest, but in the same 1873 his wife Mariya (née Sinkevych) died. He worked as the Rector of the Greek-Catholic Theological Seminary in

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from 1888 to 1890. He was appointed by the

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as an Eparchial Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Przemyśl, Sambir and Sanok on 17 November 1896. He was

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to the

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on 21 February 1897. The principal consecrator was Metropolitan Sylvester Sembratovych with four another co-consecrators. He died in Russian captivity during

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on 28 April 1915.

References

1847 births 1915 deaths People from Lviv Oblast People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria 19th-century Eastern Catholic bishops 20th-century Eastern Catholic bishops Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Bishops in Austria–Hungary Bishops of Przemyśl {{UkrainianGreekCatholic-bishop-stub