Kostyantyn Chekhovych (, ; 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 (, ; 16 October 1816 – 22 December 1890) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch in present-day Ukraine and Poland. He was the Eparchial Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Przemyśl, Sambir and Sanok from 1872 to 1890. ...

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

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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 Clergy 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