Mykola Skorodynskyi | |
Birth Name: | Mykola Mykhaylovych Skorodynskyi |
Birth Date: | 15 January 1751 |
Birth Place: | Zboriv, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (present day Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine) |
Death Place: | Lviv, Austrian Empire (present day Ukraine) |
Bishop Of: | Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Lviv, Halych and Kamianets-Podilskyi |
Ordination: | 6 January 1782 (Priest) |
Ordained By: | Petro Bilyanskyi |
Consecration: | 10 March 1799 (Bishop) |
Consecrated By: | Porfyriy Skarbek-Vazhynskyi |
Term: | 28 September 1798 – 23 May 1805 |
Predecessor: | Petro Bilyanskyi |
Successor: | Antin Anhelovych |
Other Post: | Rector of Lviv University (1804–1805) |
Mykola Skorodynskyi (Ukrainian: Микола Скородинський, Polish: Mikołaj Skorodyński; 15 January 1751 – 23 May 1805) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was the Eparchial Bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Lviv, Halych and Kamianets-Podilskyi from 1798 to 1805.
Born in Zboriv, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (present day Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine) in the family of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest Fr. Mykhaylo Skorodynskyi in 1751. He was ordained a priest on 6 January 1782 by Bishop Petro Bilyanskyi. He was a professor in the Lviv University and in the Lviv Theological Seminary and after – vice-rector in the same Seminary. Also served as a vicar general in his native Eparchy (1787–1798).[1]
He was confirmed by the Holy See as an Eparchial Bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Lviv, Halych and Kamianets-Podilskyi on 28 September 1798. He was consecrated to the Episcopate on 10 March 1799. The principal consecrator was Bishop Porfyriy Skarbek-Vazhynskyi.
He died in Lviv on 23 May 1805.