Sylwester Sembratowicz (Ukrainian: Sylvester Sembratovych/Сильвестр Сембратович; 3 September 1836 – 4 August 1898) was the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1885 until his death in 1898 and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church.
His Eminence Sylwester Sembratowicz | |
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| Metropolitan of Galicia, Archbishop of Lemberg | |
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| Church | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
| Appointed | 27 March 1885 |
| Installed | 5 May 1885 |
| Term ended | 4 August 1898 |
| Predecessor | Joseph Sembratovych |
| Successor | Julian Sas-Kuilovsky |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1 November 1860 (Priest) |
| Consecration | 20 April 1879 (Bishop) by Joseph Sembratovych |
| Created cardinal | 29 November 1895 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 September 1836 |
| Died | 4 August 1898 (aged 61) Lemberg, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary |
Life
editSylwester Sembratowicz was born on 3 September 1836, in the village of Desznica, in south-eastern Poland.[1] He studied in Vienna and in Lviv. From 1854 he moved for the academic studies in the Greek College of St. Athanasius, Rome, where he was ordained as a priest on 1 November 1860 and he obtained a doctorate in theology in 1861. He remained in Rome until 1863 when he returned to Galicia and was appointed to serve in the village of Tylicz.[2] He worked also in Greek-Ruthenian Seminary of Lviv until 1865, when he was appointed professor of theology in the University of Lviv, an assignment he kept till 1879.[3]
On 20 April 1879 he was consecrated auxiliary bishop of the Archeparchy of Lviv by his uncle, the Archbishop of Lviv Joseph Sembratowicz.[3] When his uncle resigned in 1882, Sylwester Sembratowicz was appointed apostolic administrator. On 27 March 1885 he was formally appointed Archbishop of Lviv, i.e. the primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and he was enthroned on 5 May 1885. As Primate, he reformed the Basilian Monastic Order, published vernacular prayer books and held a synod in 1891.
In June 1893 he was attacked in Lviv by a mob of students who were protesting his visit with the Pope. Sylwester Sembratowicz and another bishop were both injured, and the attack resulted in 19 arrests.[4]
On 29 November 1895 he was created cardinal priest by Pope Leo XIII[5] and he was assigned the titular church of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio on 25 June 1896. He died in Lviv on 4 August 1898.[3]
Notes
edit- ^ "Sylwester Cardinal Sembratowicz (Sembratovyc)". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ^ "S. Emin. Il Card. Sivestro Sembratowycz". Bessarione. 4. Rome: 270. 1898.
- ^ a b c Salvador Miranda. "(100) 1. SEMBRATOWICZ, Sylwester". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
- ^ "AN ARCHBISHOP MOBBED; ATTACKED IN THE STREETS OF LEMBERG BY POLISH STUDENTS. His Carriage Stopped and an Effort Made to Drag the Prelate Out -- He Resists Valiantly and Is Beaten with Canes and Covered with Dirt and Filth -- A Bishop Who Tried to Defend Him Badly Cut and Bruised -- Nineteen of the Students Arrested". The New York Times. 1893-06-09. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ Acta Sanctae Sedis (PDF). Vol. XXVIII. 1895–96. pp. 326–7.