Stefan Olshavskyi

Stefan Simon Olshavskyi
Eparch of Mukacheve
Church Ruthenian Catholic Church
Diocese Vicar Apostolic for the Ruthenians in Mukacheve
Appointed 26 August 1733
Term ended 24 December 1737
Predecessor Hennadiy Bizantsiy
Successor Havryil Blazhovskyi
Orders
Ordination 1719 (Priest)
by Hennadiy Bizantsiy
Consecration 1735 (Bishop)
by Atanasiy Sheptytskyi
Personal details
Birth name Simeon Židik
Born about 1695
Oľšavica
Died 24 December 1737 (aged 4142)
Mukachevo

Stefan Simon Olshavskyi, O.S.B.M. (born as Simeon Židik; Ukrainian: Стефан Симон Ольшавський, Hungarian: István Simon Olsavszky, Slovak: Štefan Simeon Olšavsky, c. 1695 24 December 1737) was the bishop of the Vicariate Apostolic for the Ruthenians in Mukacheve from 1733 to his death in 1737.

Life

Simon Olshavskyi was born on about 1695 in the village of Oľšavica, from which he took his surname (which originally was Židik). He studied philosophy in Košice and than in the Jesuit college of Trnava.[1] At the end of his studies, he was ordained secular priest in 1719 and assigned to the Vicariate Apostolic of Mukacheve.

At the death of his predecessor, he was appointed, on 26 August 1733 as general vicar by the Latin bishop of Eger (actually at that time, following the Union of Uzhhorod, the eparch of Mukacheve was formally an apostolic vicar of such Latin diocese.[2]). He received the titular see of Pella on 20 May 1735 and was consecrated bishop later in this year[3] by the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus', Atanasiy Sheptytskyi in Lviv. A few time before consecration, Simon Olshavskyi entered in the Order of Saint Basil the Great and took the religious name of Stefan.[1]

Bishop Stefan Olshavskyi died in Mukachevo on 24 December 1737.

Notes

  1. 1 2 Kondratovic, I.M. (1963). "The Olšavsky bishops and their activity". Slovak Studies. Rome. III: 179–198.
  2.  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Munkács". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  3. Blazejowsky, Dmytro (1990). Hierarchy of the Kyivan Church (861-1990). Rome. p. 331.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Hennadiy Bizantsiy
Vicar Apostolic for the Ruthenians in Mukacheve
1733–1737
Succeeded by
Havryil Blazhovskyi
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