Józef Bilczewski

Saint Józef Bilczewski
Archbishop of Lviv
Born	1860 Wilamowice, Bielsko County
Died	1923 Lviv
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church
Beatified	June 26, 2001, Wilamowice by Pope John Paul II
Canonized	October 23, 2005, Rome by Benedict XVI
Feast	March 20

St. Jozef Bilczewski (ukr. Йосип Більчевський, Yosyp Bilchevsky)(1860–1923) was a Polish Catholic archbishop of the city of Lviv, a professor of theology at the Lviv University and a rector of that school. Since 2005 he has been venerated by the Roman Catholic Church as a saint.

Jozef Bilczewski was born in Wilamowice, Bielsko County, part of the Austrian province of Galicia. In 1880 he graduated from a local gymnasium in Wadowice and joined the theological seminary in nearby Kraków. After receiving his Ph.D. from the Theological Faculty of the Jagiellonian University, on July 6, 1884, he became a priest and was ordained by Albin Cardinal Dunajewski, the archbishop of Kraków. In less than two years Bilczewski received his doctorate in theology and started his studies on dogmatics and Christian archaeology in Rome and Vienna and then in Paris. In 1890 he passed his habilitation at the Jagiellonian University and the following year he became a professor of dogmatics at the Lviv University (Lemberg in German). His university career progressed at a very fast pace as in 1893 he became a common professor and in 1896 he became Dean of the Theological Faculty. In 1900 he was elected the rector of that university, but gave up the post later that year as he was ordained the archbishop of Lviv with the approval of Emperor Francis-Joseph.

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