Stefan Olshavskyi

Stefan Simon Olshavskyi
Eparch of Mukacheve
Church	Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church
Diocese	Vicar Apostolic for the Ruthenians in Mukacheve
Appointed	26 August 1733
Term ended	24 December 1737
Predecessor	Hennadiy Bizantsiy
Successor	Havryil Blazhovskyi
Orders
Ordination	1719 (Priest) by Hennadiy Bizantsiy
Consecration	1735 (Bishop) by Atanasiy Sheptytskyi
Personal details
Birth name	Simeon Židik
Born	about 1695 Oľšavica
Died	24 December 1737 (aged 41–42) Mukachevo

Stefan Simon Olshavskyi, O.S.B.M. (born as Simeon Židik; Ukrainian: Стефан Симон Ольшавський, Hungarian: István Simon Olsavszky, Slovak: Štefan Simeon Olšavsky, c. 1695 – 24 December 1737) was the bishop of the Vicariate Apostolic for the Ruthenians in Mukacheve from 1733 to his death in 1737.

Simon Olshavskyi was born on about 1695 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 1719 and assigned to the Vicariate Apostolic of Mukacheve.

At the death of his predecessor, he was appointed, on 26 August 1733 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.). He received the titular see of Pella on 20 May 1735 and was consecrated bishop later in this year by the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus', Atanasiy Sheptytskyi in Lviv. A few time before consecration, Simon Olshavskyi entered in the Order of Saint Basil the Great and took the religious name of Stefan.

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