Antin Anhelovych

Antin Anhelovych (Ukrainian: Антін Ангелович, Polish: Antoni Angełłowicz; 14 April 1756 – 9 August 1814) was the first Metropolitan Archbishop of the re-built Metropolitan of Lviv from 1808 until his death in 1814.

Antin Anhelovych
Metropolitan of Galicia, Archbishop of Lemberg
Church	Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Appointed	16 March 1808
Installed	25 September 1808
Term ended	9 August 1814
Successor	Mykhajlo Levitsky
Orders
Consecration	14 Feb 1796 (Bishop) by Porfyriy Skarbek-Vazhynskyi
Personal details
Born	14 April 1756 Hryniv, Ruthenian Voivodeship, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Died	9 August 1814(1814-08-09) (aged 58) Lemberg, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire
Coat of arms

Life

Antin Anhelovych was born on 14 April 1756 in Hryniv, near Bibrka, now in Ukraine. He studied at the Barbareum (a Greek Catholic college in Vienna) and in 1793 he became the first rector of the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv. In 1794 he became professor of dogma and in 1796 rector of University of Lviv.

In 1795 he was appointed eparch of Eparchy of Przemyśl and so consecrated a bishop on 14 February 1796.[1] by Bishop Porfyriy Skarbek-Vazhynskyi of Chełm.[2][3] In 1798 he was appointed administrator of the Lviv eparchy, in 1804 administrator of the Chełm eparchy, and in 1805 administrator of both the Lviv and Kholm eparchies.[4]

Since 1772 the Western Ukraine was under the Kingdom of Galicia (a crownland of the Habsburg Monarchy) and Emperor Francis I of Austria on 11 September 1806 took the decision to re-establish Galician Metropoly.[5] In this way these territories were split from the jurisdiction of the main Metropolis of Kiev of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which was suffering under the Russian Empire (actually in 1839 the Greek-Catholic church was dissolved in the Russian Empire, and all its property was transferred to the Orthodox state church).

Pope Pius VII approved this split on 24 February 1807 elevating the Eparchy of Lviv to the rank of Metropolis and granting it the same rights of the Metropolis of Kiev. 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 Lviv on 9 August 1814.[5]

Notes

1. "Archbishop Anton Anhelovych (Angellowicz)". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
2. Blazejowsky, Dmytro (1990). Hierarchy of the Kyivan Church (861-1990). Rome. p. 318.
3. Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Przemysl, Sambor, and Sanok" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
4. "Anhelovych, Antin". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
5. Іван ПАСЛАВСЬКИЙ. "Митрополит галицький, всеукраїнський". Україна Молода. Retrieved 3 April 2011.

Religious titles
Preceded by Theodosius Rostocki as Metropolitan of Kiev, Halych and all Ruthenia	Metropolitan of Galicia and Archbishop of Lemberg 1808—1814	Succeeded by Mykhajlo Levitsky
Preceded by Mykola Skorodynskyi as Bishop of Lemberg and Kamenez
Preceded by Porfyriy Vazhyskyi	Bishop of Chelm and Belz (as administrator) 1804–1810	Succeeded by Ferdynand Tsikhanovskyi
Preceded by Petro Bilyanskyi as Administrator of the Eparchy	Bishop of Premissel and Saanig 1796–1813	Succeeded by Mykhajlo Levitsky
Educational offices
Preceded by Jan Holfeld	Rector of Lviv University 1796—1797	Succeeded by Stanisław Orzębski