Peter Bielański

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 Przemyśl, 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 Bielański (Ukrainian: Петро Білянський, Polish: Piotr Bielański; 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.

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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