Maksymilian Rylo

(Polish: Maksymilian Ryłło, Ukrainian: Максиміліян Рило; 21 September 1719 – 22 November 1793) was the Eparch of Chełm–Belz in the Ruthenian Uniate Church from 1756 to 1785.

Born in the family estate near Barysaw, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (present day Minsk Region, Belarus) or, according another dates, in Rylivka, near Vilnius (present day Lithuania) in a noble Catholic family of Hieronim and Anna (née Miecznikowski) Rylo in 1719 or 1715.

Rylo joined the Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Vilnius of the Order of Saint Basil the Great in a young age, where he made a profession and was sent to complete a philosophical and theological studies in Rome in the Pontifical Urban University, where he ultimately earned a doctorate in sacred theology.

After returning from Italy, he had a various pastoral assignments and served as superior and hegumen at the Basilian Institutes in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

[1] Also during the First Partition of Poland Bishop Rylo was imprisoned by Russian Government for some months in 1774.

Pastoral letter of Bishop Maksymilian Rylo from 1792