Mykhaylo Bradach (; 2 April 1748 – 20 December 1815) was a Ruthenian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was titular bishop of

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, auxiliary bishop (from 1808) and Apostolic Administrator of the

Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve The Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo is an eparchy of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church that was erected by Pope Clement XIV in 1771. The geographic remit of the eparchy includes the south-western parts of Ukraine that are roughly within Zak ...

from 1812 to 1815.

Life

Born in Kamienka,

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(present day –

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) in 1748, he was

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on 15 August 1777. He was a younger brother of Bishop

Ivan Bradach Ivan Bradach, O.S.B.M. (, ; 14 February 1732 – 4 July 1772) was a Ruthenian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was the titular bishop of Rhosus and the last Vicar Apostolic for the Ruthenians from 1768 to 1771 and the first eparchial bishop of the newl ...

and nephew of Bishops Stefan Olshavskyi and

Manuil Olshavskyi Manuil Mykhaylo Olshavskyi, Order of Saint Basil the Great, O.S.B.M., (born as Michal Židik; , , , c. 1700 – 5 November 1767) was the bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve, Vicariate Apostolic for the Ruthenians in Mukacheve ...

. He was appointed as the Auxiliary Bishop by the

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on 30 September 1808. He was

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to the

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on 8 January 1809. The principal

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was Bishop Samuil Vulcan. In 1812 Bishop Bradach was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of the Eparchy of Mukacheve, that was vacant from 1809. He died in

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on 20 December 1815.

References

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