Andriy Bachynskyi

Andriy Bachynskyi (Ukrainian: Андрій Бачинський, Hungarian: Bacsinszky András; 11 November 1732 – 19 November 1809) was a Ruthenian Greek Catholic hierarch.

He was bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve from 1773 to 1809.

Born in Beňatina, Habsburg monarchy (present day – Slovakia) in 1732 in the family of the Ruthenian priest Teodor Bachynskyi.

[1] He was ordained a priest on 2 September 1756 for the Vicariate Apostolic for Ruthenians by Bishop Manuil Olshavskyi.

[2] During his episcopacy, in 1777, the bishop's see was transferred from Mukacheve to Uzhgorod.

Bishop Andriy Bachynskyi