Stefan Olshavskyi Explained

Stefan Simon Olshavskyi
Bishop Of:Eparch of Mukacheve
Diocese:Vicar Apostolic for the Ruthenians in Mukacheve
Appointed:26 August 1733
Ended:24 December 1737
Predecessor:Hennadiy Bizantsiy
Successor:Havryil Blazhovskyi
Ordination:1719 (Priest)
Ordained By:Hennadiy Bizantsiy
Consecration:1735 (Bishop)
Consecrated By:Atanasiy Sheptytskyi
Birth Date:about 1695
Birth Place:Oľšavica
Death Date:24 December
Death Place:Mukachevo
Birth Name:Simeon Židik

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

Life

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 then in the Jesuit college of Trnava.[1] At the end of his studies, he was ordained a 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 that Latin diocese.[2]). He received the titular see of Pella on 20 May 1735 and was consecrated bishop later in this year[3] by the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus', Atanasiy Sheptytskyi in Lviv. A short time before consecration, Simon Olshavskyi entered the Order of Saint Basil the Great and took the religious name of Stefan.[1]

Bishop Stefan Olshavskyi died in Mukachevo on 24 December 1737.

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Notes and References

  1. I.M. . Kondratovic . Slovak Studies . III . The Olšavsky bishops and their activity . 1963 . Rome . 179–198.
  2. Munkács.
  3. Book: Blazejowsky, Dmytro . Hierarchy of the Kyivan Church (861-1990). 1990 . Rome . 331.