Jan Olszanski

(Ukrainian: Ян Ольшанський; Polish: Jan Olszański; 14 January 1919 – 23 February 2003) was a Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate as the first diocesan Bishop of the reestablished Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi from 16 January 1991 until his retirement on 4 May 2002.

[1] Olszanski was born in the peasant Roman Catholic family of Jan and Maria (née Boyko) Olszański in non existed today village Hutyska Brodski (present day a territory of Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine).

[2] In the same time, he clandestinely joined the Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception, were made a profession in 1988.

[3] On January 16, 1991, he was appointed by Pope John Paul II as the first diocesan bishop of the reestablished Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi.

On March 2, 1991, he was consecrated as bishop by Metropolitan Archbishop Marian Jaworski and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church[3] in the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, Lviv.