Grzegorz Chomyszyn
Hryhory Khomyshyn (also Hryhorij Khomyshyn, Polish: Grzegorz Chomyszyn, Ukrainian Григорій Хомишин; born March 25, 1867 in Hadynkivtsi, Ukraine, † January 17, 1947 in Kiev ) was a bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of Stanislaviv was on June 27 2001 by Pope John Paul II proclaimed a martyr and beatified.
Life
Hryhory Khomyshyn was the son of Greek parents and was ordained priest on 18 November 1893. His graduate studies in theology, he completed from 1894 to 1899 at the Faculty of Catholic Theology University of Vienna and was appointed in 1902 as rector of the seminary of Lviv archeparchy.
On 6 May 1904 he was appointed Bishop of Stanislaviv today archeparchy Ivano -Frankivsk, appointed and consecrated on 19 June 1904 Bishop. His consecrator was Archbishop Andrei Scheptyzkyj OSBM ( archeparchy Ukrainian Lviv ). As co-consecrators assisted Archbishop Józef Bilczewski ( Archdiocese of Lviv ), Archbishop Józef Teofil Teodorowicz ( Armenian archeparchy Lviv ) and Bishop Konstantyn Czechowicz ( Ruthenian Eparchy of Przemysl ).
Consecrate
- He donated Simeon Lukach the priesthood and consecrated him to the "secret bishop".
- As principal consecrator he consecrated a bishop: Mykolay Charnetskyi CSsR, Grygory Balahurak OSBM ( Auxiliary Bishop of Stanislaviv ), Ivan Sleziuk ( Coadjutor Bishop of Stanislaviv ) and Stefan Vaprovych ( bishop).
- He assisted as Mitkonsekrator at: Soter Stephen Ortynsky de Labetz OSBM ( Apostolic Exarch of the United States), Nicetas Budka ( Apostolic Exarch of Canada) and Giovanni Latyševskyj ( Auxiliary Bishop of Stanislaviv ).
Martyrdom and Beatification
On the occasion of his pastoral letters and the advocacy of the unity of the Eastern Catholic Churches he was followed by the occupation of the Ukraine by the Soviets. He fled to Vienna in 1914 and returns two years later returned. In his diocese he introduced the Gregorian calendar, he appointed in his diocese the Byzantine rite of the Greek Catholic Church as valid and led 1921 celibacy for priests. Politically, he polarized the headed by him " Ukrainian Catholic People's Party ", which reached high election results in his diocese. Bishop Khomyshyn in 1939 by the secret police of the USSR, the NKVD arrested, tortured and interrogated. 1945, deported him to the Lukjaniwska prison in Kiev, where he also died from the effects of distress and suffering on 17 January 1947. He was born on 27 June 2001, declared together with twenty-four other venerable servants and handmaidens of God, Pope John Paul II as a martyr and beatified.