Teodosii Halushchynskyi

The Very Reverend

Teodosii Halushchynskyi, OSBM
Superior General of the Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat
Installed1949
Term ended1952
PredecessorHlib Kinakh
SuccessorPavlo Myskiv
Personal details
Born(1880-04-13)13 April 1880
Buchach, Austria-Hungary
Died31 August 1952(1952-08-31) (aged 72)
Mundare, Alberta, Canada
BuriedMundare, Alberta, Canada
NationalityUkrainian
DenominationUkrainian Greek Catholic
Alma materUniversity of Fribourg, University of Vienna, University of Innsbruck

Teodosii Tyt Halushchynskyi, O.S.B.M.(sometimes Theodosiy Halushchinski; Ukrainian: Теодосій Тит Галущинський; 13 April 1880 – 31 August 1952) was a Ukrainian Basilian priest, biblical scholar and church historian.

Biography

After studying philosophy and theology at Lviv University and the universities of Fribourg, Vienna (D Th, 1906), and Innsbruck, he taught at the Stanyslaviv Theological Seminary. He took monastic vows in 1908 and was appointed lecturer at Lviv University (1915) and at the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv (1920), where he also served as rector (1920–5). He was a founding member and president (1923–6) of the Ukrainian Theological Scholarly Society. In 1931 he became the spiritual adviser at Saint Josaphat's Ukrainian Pontifical College in Rome. In 1949 he was elected archimandrite of the Basilian monastic order and appointed consultator to the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.

Writings

Besides numerous articles on public affairs, philosophy, and theology, Halushchynsky wrote Istoriia bibliina Staroho Zavita (Biblical History of the Old Testament, 3 vols, 1914–34) and De urbis Babel exordiis ac de primo in terra Sinear regno (1917), and edited Acta Innocentii pp. III (1198–1216) A Registris Vaticanis (1944).

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