Manuil Olshavskyi

Manuil Mykhaylo Olshavskyi
Eparch of Mukacheve
Church	Ruthenian Catholic Church
Diocese	Vicar Apostolic for the Ruthenians in Mukacheve
Appointed	5 September 1743
Term ended	5 November 1767
Predecessor	Havryil Blazhovskyi
Successor	Ivan Bradach
Orders
Ordination	1725 (Priest) by Hennadiy Bizantsiy
Consecration	9 Dec 1743 (Bishop) by Inocenţiu Micu-Klein
Personal details
Birth name	Michal Židik
Born	about 1700 Oľšavica
Died	5 November 1767 (aged 66–67) Mukachevo

Manuil Mykhaylo Olshavskyi, O.S.B.M. (born as Michal Židik; Ukrainian: Мануїл Михайло Ольшавський, Hungarian: Manó Mihály Olsavszky, Slovak: Manuel Michal Olšavsky, c. 1700 – 5 November 1767) was the bishop of the Vicariate Apostolic for the Ruthenians in Mukacheve from 1743 to his death in 1767.

Mykhaylo Olshavskyi was born on about 1700 in the village of Oľšavica, from which he took his surname (which originally was Židik). He studied philosophy in Košice and than in the Jesuit college of Trnava. At the end of his studies, he was ordained secular priest in 1725 and assigned to the Eparchy of Mukacheve, where he later became vicar of the eparchs (bishops) Stefan Olshavskyi (who was his older brother) and Havryil Blazhovskyi.

At the death of his predecessor, he was appointed, on 8 February 1743 as general vicar by the Latin bishop of Eger: actually at that time, following the Union of Uzhhorod, the eparch of Mukacheve was formally an apostolic vicar of such Latin diocese. In a few months he was elected to such position by the clergy, designated by the Empress Maria Theresa and so confirmed by Pope Benedict XIV on 5 September 1743. He received the titular see of Rhosus and was consecrated bishop on 9 December 1743 by the bishop of Făgăraş, Inocenţiu Micu-Klein. A few time before consecration, Mykhaylo Olshavskyi entered in the Order of Saint Basil the Great and took the religious name of Manuil.

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