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Mykola Skorodynskyi
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. LifeBorn 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.[2] He died in Lviv on 23 May 1805. References
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