Petro Bilyanskyi
Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Lviv, Halych and Kamianets-Podilskyi
Church	Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
In office	30 October 1779 ? 29 May 1798
Predecessor	Lev Sheptytskyi
Successor	Mykola Skorodynskyi
Other post(s)	Administrator of Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Przemy?l, Sambir and Sanok (1793?1796)
Orders
Ordination	c.  1760 ( Priest )
Consecration	23 September 1781 ( Bishop ) by  Jason Smogorzewski
Personal details
Born	Petro Bilyanskyi 1736 Zhovkva , Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth (present day Lviv Oblast , Ukraine )
Died	29 May 1798 (aged 61?62) Lviv , Habsburg monarchy (present day Ukraine )
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Peter Biela?ski ( Ukrainian : Петро Б?лянський , Polish : Piotr Biela?ski ; 1736 ? 29 May 1798) 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.

Life [ edit ]

Born in Zhovkva , Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth (present day Lviv Oblast , Ukraine ) in a bourgeois family in 1736. He was ordained a priest and become a Canon of the St. George's Cathedral, Lviv until his election as bishop. ^[1]

He was confirmed by the Holy See as an Eparchial Bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Lviv, Halych and Kamianets-Podilskyi on 30 October 1779. He was consecrated to the Episcopate on 23 September 1781. The principal consecrator was Metropolitan Yason Smohozhevskyi . ^[2]

With his assistance, a seminary for the Greek Catholics was opened in Lviv on 30 August 1783. A clarification of the limits of the eparchy was made, its division into the decanats . ^[1]

He died in Lviv on 29 May 1798.

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