Peter Bielański (Ukrainian: Петро Білянський, Polish: Piotr Bielański; 1736 – 29 May 1798) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was the Eparchial Bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Lviv, Halych and Kamianets-Podilskyi from 1798 to 1805.
Life
Born in Zhovkva, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (present day Lviv Oblast, Ukraine) in a bourgeois family in 1736. He was ordained a priest and become a Canon of the St. George's Cathedral, Lviv until his election as bishop.[1]
He was confirmed by the Holy See as an Eparchial Bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Lviv, Halych and Kamianets-Podilskyi on 30 October 1779. He was consecrated to the Episcopate on 23 September 1781. The principal consecrator was Metropolitan Yason Smohozhevskyi.[2]
With his assistance, a seminary for the Greek Catholics was opened in Lviv on 30 August 1783. A clarification of the limits of the eparchy was made, its division into the decanats.[1]
He died in Lviv on 29 May 1798.
References
- ^ a b Pelesz, Julian (1881). Geschichte der Union der ruthenischen Kirche mit Rom (in German). Vol. 2. Würzburg-Wien. p. 682.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Bishop Petro Bielański (Bilyanskyi) †". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
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