Hryhory Khomyshyn
| Blessed Hryhoriy Khomyshyn | |
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| Born | 25 March 1867 Hadynkivtsi, Husiatyn, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Austrian Empire |
| Died | 17 January 1947 (aged 79) Lukyanivska Prison Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union |
| Venerated in |
Roman Catholic Church, Ukrainian Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 27 June 2001, Lviv, Ukraine by Pope John Paul II |
| Feast | December 28 |
The Blessed Hryhoriy Khomyshyn (also Hryhorij Khomyshyn, Ukrainian: Григорій Лукич Хомишин, Polish: Grzegorz Chomyszyn) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and hieromartyr.
Khomyshyn was born on 25 March 1867 in the village of Hadynkivtsi, eastern Galicia, in what is now Ternopil Oblast. He graduated from the seminary and was ordained a priest on 18 November 1893. He continued to study theology at the University of Vienna from 1894 to 1899, and in 1902, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky appointed Khomyshyn the rector of the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv. In 1904, he was consecrated as the bishop for Stanyslaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk) at St. George's Cathedral. Throughout his tenure, spanning over four decades, he was considered the second most powerful figure in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
Unlike Sheptytsky, Khomyshyn believed that the UGCC should adopt a more westward orientation, further emphasizing the Uniate Church's relationship with Rome. This meant introducing Latinized practicies such as the Gregorian calendar and a strict adherence to clerical celibacy, which were met with controversy in his eparchy.
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