Toma Polyanskyi ( uk, Тома Полянський, pl, Tomasz Syrus Polański; 15 October 1796 – 11 November 1869) was a

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hierarch in a 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 1860 to 1867. Born in

Bartne Bartne ', ( rue, Бортне, ''Bortne'', uk, Бортне, ''Bortne'') is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sękowa, within Gorlice County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland, close to the border with Slovakia. It l ...

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(present day –

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) in the family of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest Toma Sr. and his wife Kateryna (née Petrykivska) in 1796. He was

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in 1819 by Bishop

Hryhoriy Yakhymovych Hryhoriy Yakhymovych ( uk, Григорій Яхимович, pl, Grzegorz Jachimowicz; 16 February 1792 – 29 April 1863) was the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and also a leading figure in the Ukrainian Na ...

. He worked as a Vicar General of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Przemyśl, Sambir and Sanok from 1856 to 1860. He was confirmed by the

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as an Eparchial Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Przemyśl, Sambir and Sanok on 23 March 1860. He was

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to the

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on 2 December 1860. The principal consecrator was Metropolitan

. He resigned as Eparchial Bishop by health reasons on 1 October 1867. He died in

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on 11 November 1869.

References

1796 births 1869 deaths 19th-century Eastern Catholic bishops Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Bishops in Austria-Hungary Bishops of Przemyśl People from Gorlice County {{UkrainianGreekCatholic-bishop-stub