Andriy Sheptytsky
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Venerable Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, O.S.B.M. |
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| Metropolitan Galicia, Archbishop of Lviv (Lemberg) | |
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| Church | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
| Appointed | 12 December 1900 |
| Installed | 17 January 1901 |
| Term ended | 1 November 1944 |
| Predecessor | Metropolitan Archbishop Julian Sas-Kuilovsky |
| Successor | Cardinal Josyf Slipyj |
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| Ordination | 22 August 1892 |
| Consecration | 17 September 1899 by Metropolitan Archbishop Julian Sas-Kuilovsky |
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| Birth name | Roman Aleksander Maria Sheptytsky |
| Born | 29 July 1865 Prylbychi, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire |
| Died | November 1, 1944 (aged 79) Lviv, Ukrainian SSR |
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St. George's Cathedral, Lviv, Ukraine 49°50′19.48″N 24°0′46.19″E / 49.8387444°N 24.0128306°E |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
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| Venerated in | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
| Title as Saint | Venerable |
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, O.S.B.M., (Ukrainian: Митрополит Андрей Шептицький; Polish: Andrzej Szeptycki; 29 July 1865 – 1 November 1944) was the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1901 until his death in 1944. His tenure spanned two world wars and seven political regimes: Austrian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Soviet, General Government (Nazi), 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". The Lviv National Museum, founded by Sheptytsky in 1905, now bears his name.
He was born as Count Roman Aleksander Maria Sheptytsky (Szeptycki) in a village 40 km west/northwest of Lviv called Prylbychi, in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, then a crownland of the Austrian Empire.
Szeptycki family is from an Ruthenian line, which in the 19th century had become polonized, Roman Catholic and French-speaking, while Fredro family is also of noble Polish origin. Among his ancestors there were many important church figures, including two metropolitans of Kiev, Atanasy and Lev. His maternal grandfather was the Polish writer Aleksander Fredro. One of his brothers, Klymentiy Sheptytsky, M.S.U., became a Studite monk, and another, Stanisław Szeptycki, became a military general in the Polish Army. He was 2 m 10 cm (6 ft. 10 in.) tall.
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