Name Iosyf Shumliansky | Died 1708 | |
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Joseph Shumliansky (Polish: Józef Szumlański, Ukrainian: Йосиф Шумлянський) (1643–1708) was a Polish bishop in Lviv (at the time a Polish city), best known for restoring unity with the Holy See in 1700.
Biography
Iosyf Shumliansky grew up in the kingdom of Jan Sobieski, and later participated with him in the defense of Vienna. In 1676 (according to other sources - from 1668 ) became Orthodox bishop of Lviv.
In 1667, Joseph was elected an Orthodox bishop, though he spoke against the bishop of Przemyśl. Against Joseph was Lviv fraternity, putting their candidate for the chair Jeremiah, who was ordained. Among the candidates came a fierce struggle, which lasted about five years. Only with the accession to the Polish throne of Jan Sobieski, a personal friend of Joseph, the latter managed to defeat his opponent. In 1675, being the bishop of Lviv, he was appointed administrator and the Diocese of Kyiv. In 1677 in the course of contacts with the papal nuncio in Warsaw Joseph Shumlyansky secretly adopted Catholicism, what finally it has initiated the implementation of the union.
At the council in 1700 to Joseph failed to persuade the clergy of his diocese to take the union. Lviv brotherhood first refused to follow the bishop and try to protect Orthodoxy, but eventually relented and in 1708 also took the union, with the condition of subordination directly to Roman Curia. Shumlyansky instructed the clergy to lead metrics, also made instructions on how to behave in the church and outside it. By Church of the textbook "metric" and "Thoughts of the battle with the Turks at Vienna."
Shumliansky keptin touch with Hetmans Peter Doroshenko and Ivan Mazepa.