Jan Olszanski

Bishop Jan Olszanski, M.I.C. (Ukrainian: Ян Ольшанський; Polish: Jan Olszański; 14 January 1919 – 23 February 2003) was a Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate as the first Diocesan Bishop of the reestablished Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi from 16 January 1991 until his retirement on 4 May 2002.

Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral, where Bishop Jan Olszanski is buried in the crypt
Jan Olszanski, M.I.C.
Diocesan Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
Appointed16 January 1991
Term ended4 May 2002
PredecessorPetro Mankowski
SuccessorLeon Dubrawski
Orders
Ordination15 November 1942 (Priest)
by Bolesław Twardowski
Consecration2 March 1991 (Bishop)
by Marian Jaworski
Personal details
Birth nameJan Olszański
Born(1919-01-14)14 January 1919
Hutyska Brodski, West Ukrainian People's Republic (present day Lviv Oblast, Ukraine)
Died23 February 2003(2003-02-23) (aged 84)
Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine

Life

Bishop Olszanski was born in the peasant Roman Catholic family of Jan and Maria (née Boyko) Olszański in non existed today village Hutyska Brodski (present day a territory of the Brody Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine).[1]

After graduation of the primary school in his native village and a state gymnasium in Brody, future Bishop subsequently joined Faculty of Theology of the University of Lviv and the Major Roman Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv in 1938 and was ordained as priest on November 15, 1942, for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv by Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski,[2] when completed of the philosophical and theological studies.[1]

During 1942–1944 he served as an assistant priest in his native Archdiocese. In 1944 he was transferred to Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, when continued to serve as a parish priest and during a period of the Polish population transfers (1944–1946) he remained in the Soviet Union. Under the pressure of the Communist government he moved to Lviv in 1946, but two years later was again forced to leave Lviv and returned in the Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi. Here he worked until 1991 under the Communist persecution of the Religion.[1] In the same time, he clandestinely joined the Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception, were made a solemn profession in 1988.[2]

On January 16, 1991, he was appointed by the Saint Pope John Paul II as the first Diocesan Bishop of the reestablished Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi. On March 2, 1991, he was consecrated as bishop by Metropolitan Archbishop Marian Jaworski and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church[2] in the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, Lviv.[1]

Bishop Olszanski retired from office, because of reaching of the age limit. He died in Kamianets-Podilskyi on February 22, 2003 in age 84.[1]

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References
  1. "Тринадцята річниця смерті єпископа Яна Ольшанського". Official Website of the Archdiocese of Lviv (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  2. "Bishop Jan Olszanski, M.I.C. †". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Petro Mankowski		 Diocesan Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi
1991–2002		 Succeeded by
Leon Dubrawski
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