Anthony Anhelovych (Angelovich, , ; 14 April 1756 – 9 August 1814) was the first

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of the re-built Metropolitan of Lviv from 1808 until his death in 1814.

Life

Antin Anhelovych was born on 14 April 1756 in Hryniv, near

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, now in

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. He studied at the Barbareum (a

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college in

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) and in 1793 he became the first rector of the Greek Catholic Theological

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. In 1794 he became professor of dogma and in 1796 rector of

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. In 1795 he was appointed

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of Eparchy of Przemyśl and so consecrated a

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on 14 February 1796. by Bishop Porfyriy Skarbek-Vazhynskyi of Chełm. In 1798 he was appointed administrator of the

eparchy, in 1804 administrator of the

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eparchy, and in 1805 administrator of both the Lviv and Kholm eparchies. By 1805, the " Metropolis of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia" was effectively dissolved. In its place, Emperor

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decided to re-establish a Galician metropolis in the western part of the

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on 11 September 1806. In this way these territories were split from the jurisdiction of the main Metropolis of

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of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which was suffering under the

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(actually in 1839 the Greek-Catholic church was dissolved in the Russian Empire, and all its property was transferred to the Orthodox state church).

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approved this split on 24 February 1807 elevating the

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of Lviv to the rank of

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and granting it the same rights of the Metropolis of Kyiv. On 16 March 1808 Angelovych was appointed the first Greek-Catholic Metropolitan in Lviv. The enthronement occurred on 25 September 1808. Antin Anhelovych died in

on 9 August 1814.

Notes

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