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Petro Gebey ( uk, Петро Ґебей, hu, Gebé Péter; 20 July 1864 – 26 April 1931) was a Ruthenian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was bishop of the
Petro Gebey ( uk, Петро Ґебей, hu, Gebé Péter; 20 July 1864 – 26 April 1931) was a Ruthenian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve
The Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo is an eparchy (diocese) associated with the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church under an unidentified status and territory located in the west of Ukraine, roughly equivalent with Zakarpatska Oblast. The eparc ...
from 1924 to 1931.
Biography
Born in Kalnyk,Austrian Empire
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(present day – Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine
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) in 1864, he was ordained
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a priest
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on 13 October 1889. He was appointed the Bishop by the Holy See
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on 16 July 1924. He was consecrated
Consecration is the solemn dedication to a special purpose or service. The word ''consecration'' literally means "association with the sacred". Persons, places, or things can be consecrated, and the term is used in various ways by different grou ...
to the Episcopate
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on 3 August 1924. The principal consecrator was Bishop Dionizije Njaradi, and the principal co-consecrators were 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 ...
and Bishop Karol Józef Fischer.
He died in Uzhhorod on 26 April 1931.
See also
*Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church
The Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church ( rue, Русиньска ґрекокатолицька церьков; la, Ecclesia Graeco-Catholica Ruthenica), also known in the United States simply as the Byzantine Catholic Church, is an Eastern Cath ...
References
1864 births 1931 deaths 20th-century Eastern Catholic bishops Bishops of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church People from Zakarpattia Oblast {{EasternCatholic-bishop-stub