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Toma Polyanskyi

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Predecessor
  
Hryhoriy Yakhymovych

Toma Polyanskyi

Church
  
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

In office
  
2 December 1860 – 1 October 1867

Successor
  
Joseph Sembratovych, as Ap. Administrator

Ordination
  
1819 (Priest) by Ivan Snihurskyi

Consecration
  
2 December 1860 (Bishop) by Hryhoriy Yakhymovych

Died
  
11 November 1869, Przemyśl, Poland

Toma Polyanskyi (Ukrainian: Тома Полянський, Polish: Tomasz Syrus Polański; 15 October 1796 – 11 November 1869) was an Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch in a present-day Ukraine and Poland. He was the Eparchial Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Przemyśl, Sambir and Sanok from 1860 to 1867.

Born in Bartne, Habsburg Monarchy (present day – Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland) in the family of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest Toma Sr. and his wife Kateryna (née Petrykivska) in 1796. He was ordained a priest on 1819 by Bishop Hryhoriy Yakhymovych. He worked as a Vicar General of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Przemyśl, Sambir and Sanok from 1856 to 1860.

He was confirmed by the Holy See as an Eparchial Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Przemyśl, Sambir and Sanok on 23 March 1860. He was consecrated to the Episcopate on 2 December 1860. The principal consecrator was Metropolitan Hryhoriy Yakhymovych. He resigned as Eparchial Bishop by health reasons on 1 October 1867.

He died in Przemyśl on 11 November 1869.

References

Toma Polyanskyi Wikipedia