Mykhailo Levytsky

Mykhailo Levytskyi (or Mykhajlo Levitsky (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. He was from a Ukrainian Greek Catholic sacerdotal family and nobility with the herbu, de Rogale.

His Eminence Mykhailo Levytskyi
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, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Habsburg Monarchy
Died	14 January 1858 (aged 83) Univ Lavra, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire

Styles of Mykhailo Levytskyi
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Kyiv and Halych

Life

Mykhailo Levytskyi was born on 17 February 1774[1] at Lanchyn, in Pokuttya region, the son of Rev. Stefan Lewicki (sic), the Greek Catholic priest in Lanchyn and Maria (last name unknown). He was one of at least eight children born to Rev. Stefan and Maria. Mykhailo's older brother, Gregory, became a priest also and served the village of Prysowce (Ukr: Prysivtsi) as its Greek Catholic pastor. Mykhailo 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.[2]

In 1813 he was appointed bishop of the Archeparchy of Przemyśl and so consecrated Bishop on 20 September 1813 by Metropolitan Antin Angelovych.[3] He participated to the Congress of Vienna

On 17 August 1815 Mykhailo Levytskyi was designated Metropolitan of Lviv by Emperor Francis II of Austria and so confirmed by Pope Pius VII on 8 March 1816.

He founded 383 parochial schools, cared for the publication of textbooks for them, and he supported the creation of educational associations of priests. Together with John Mohylnytskym he sought the introduction of teaching in the Ukrainian language in schools in Eastern Galicia. Later defined as conservative, he was close to the Polish gentry circles, and enemy of modern trends in social and cultural life. During the revolution of 1848, he supported the creation of the Supreme Ruthenian Council, which supported the Ukrainophile and pro-Habsburg positions of the Western Ukrainian Clergy, and encouraged the clergy to work on the education of the people

On 16 June 1856 he was created Cardinal priest by Pope Pius IX. He died in the Univ Lavra on 14 January 1858.[4]

References

1. on 16 August 1774 according to other sources
2. Pelesz, Julian (1881). Geschichte der Union der ruthenischen Kirche mit Rom. Woerl. pp. 899, 950.
3. "Mihail (Mychajlo) Cardinal Lewicki (Levyckyj)". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
4. Salvador Miranda. "(40) 1. LEWICKI, Mihail". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Retrieved 2 April 2011.

External links

• Mykhailo Levytskyi at Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine