Hennadiy Bizantsiy

Hennadiy Bizantsiy
Eparch of Mukacheve
Church	Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church
Diocese	Eparchy of Mukacheve
Appointed	3 April 1716
Term ended	22 July 1733
Predecessor	Yosyp Hodermarskyi
Successor	Stefan Olshavskyi
Orders
Ordination	1701
Consecration	21 Dec 1716 (Bishop) by Lev Kiszka
Personal details
Born	1657
Died	22 July 1733 (aged 75–76) Csernek (Cernuc), near Gârbou

Hennadiy Yuriy Bizantsiy, O.S.B.M. (or George Gennadius Bizanczy, 1657–1733) was the bishop of the Eparchy of Mukacheve from 1716 to his death in 1733.

Yuriy Bizantsiy was born in 1657. He completed his studies in the Jesuit college of Trnava and ordained as a priest in 1701. He was assigned as parish priest in Nagykálló, near the village of Máriapócs where an icon of the Virgin Mary wept in 1696 and again in August 1715.

The succession of the eparch of Mukacheve Joseph De Camillis, died in 1706, was problematic. Three pretenders were appointed: Yosyp Hodermarskyi appointed by the Habsburgs king Joseph I of Hungary, Petronius Kaminsky appointed by anti-Habsburgs Francis II Rákóczi, and Ukrainian Polycarp Fylypovych appointed in 1709 by Rome. The solution arrived only in 1715: Kaminsky was died, Hodermarskyi retired in a monastery and on 4 May 1715 the clergy elected Hennadit Bizantsiy, as suggested by the Latin bishop of Eger. His election was confirmed by the King of Hungary and later, on 3 April 1716 also by Pope Clement XI, who retracted the appointment of Fylypovych.

At the time, the eparch (bishop) of Mukacheve was granted formally only the title of apostolic vicar in order to not to have two bishops, one Latin and one Greek Catholic, on the same territory. However Bizantsiy had to pay the support of the Latin bishop of Eger in his election: the eparchy of Mukacheve became subject to Eger bishop, who soon hampered his action. Only in 1771 the eparchy was made independent from the Eger bishop.

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