His Eminence Mykhajlo Levitsky |
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Metropolitan of Galicia, Archbishop of Lemberg | |
Church | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
Appointed | 8 March 1816 |
Term ended | 14 January 1858 |
Predecessor | Antin Angelovych |
Successor | Hryhory Yakhymovych |
Orders | |
Ordination | 1798 (Priest) |
Consecration | 20 Sept 1813 (Bishop) by Antin Angelovych |
Created Cardinal | 16 June 1856 |
Personal details | |
Born | 17 February 1774 Lanchyn, in Pokuttya |
Died | 14 January 1858 Univ Lavra |
(aged 83)
Styles of Mykhajlo Levitsky |
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Reference style | His Eminence |
Spoken style | Your Eminence |
Informal style | Cardinal |
Mykhajlo Levitsky (or Mykhailo Levytskyi (Ukrainian: Михайло Левицький, Polish: Michał Lewicki)); 17 February, 1774 – 14 January, 1858) was the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1816 until his death in 1858 and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church.
Mykhajlo Levitsky was born on 17 February 1774 at Lanchyn, in Pokuttya region. He studied philosophy and theology in Lviv and later in Vienna where, after his (Priestly) ordination in 1798, he entered in force to the Greek Catholic parish of the St. Barbara and where he got a doctorate in theology. Returned to Galicia, became prefect of the Lviv Theological Seminary and later Professor of Scripture and Pastoral Theology at the University of Lviv.
In 1813 he was appointed bishop of the Archeparchy of Przemyśl and so consecrated Bishop on 20 September 1813 by Metropolitan Antin Angelovych. He participated to the Congress of Vienna
On 17 August 1815 Mykhajlo Levitsky was designed Metropolitan of Lviv by Emperor Francis II of Austria and so confirmed by Pope Pius VII on 8 March 1816.