Andrey Sheptytsky


Andrey Sheptytsky

Metropolitan Galicia, Archbishop of Lviv (Lemberg)
ChurchUkrainian Greek Catholic Church
Appointed12 December 1900
Installed17 January 1901
Term ended1 November 1944
PredecessorMetropolitan Archbishop Julian Sas-Kuilovsky
SuccessorCardinal Josyf Slipyj
Orders
Ordination22 August 1892
Consecration17 September 1899
by Metropolitan Archbishop Julian Sas-Kuilovsky
Personal details
Born
Roman Aleksander Maria Sheptytsky

29 July 1865
DiedNovember 1, 1944(1944-11-01) (aged 79)
Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
BuriedSt. George's Cathedral,
Lviv, Ukraine
49°50′19.48″N 24°0′46.19″E / 49.8387444°N 24.0128306°E / 49.8387444; 24.0128306
NationalityUkrainian
Coat of armsAndrey Sheptytsky's coat of arms

I am Ukrainian from my grandfather, great-grandfather. And our church and our holy ritual I love with all my heart devoting to the Lord's affair my whole life. So I know that in this regard I could not be foreign to people who have given their heart and soul for the same cause.

Andrey Sheptytsky, Pastoral letters, 2 August 1899.[1]

Andrey Sheptytsky, OSBM (Polish: Andrzej Szeptycki; Ukrainian: Митрополит Андрей Шептицький, romanizedMytropolyt Andrei Sheptytskyi; 29 July 1865 – 1 November 1944) was the Greek Catholic Archbishop of Lviv and Metropolitan of Halych from 1901 until his death in 1944.[2] His tenure in office spanned two world wars and six political regimes: Austrian, Ukrainian, Soviet, Polish, Nazi German, and again Soviet.

According to the church historian Jaroslav Pelikan, "Arguably, Metropolitan Andriy Sheptytsky was the most influential figure ...in the entire history of the Ukrainian Church in the twentieth century".[3] The Lviv National Museum, founded by Sheptytsky in 1905, now bears his name.

The Information-Resource Center of the Ukrainian Catholic University that was opened in September 2017 also bears his name — The Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Center.[4]

  1. ^ Hakh, I. Great descendant of the old family (Великий нащадок давнього роду). Zbruch (newspaper) [uk]. 31 July 2015
  2. ^ "Митрополит Андрей Шептицький - Україна Incognita". incognita.day.kyiv.ua. Archived from the original on 2020-04-07. Retrieved 2020-04-09.
  3. ^ Pelikan, Jaroslav (1990). Confessor Between East and West. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. ISBN 0-8028-3672-0.
  4. ^ "About the Center". UKU Center (in Ukrainian). 2018-05-11. Retrieved 2019-08-30.