Stefan Olshavskyi

(born as Simeon Židik; Ukrainian: Стефан Симон Ольшавський, Hungarian: István Simon Olsavszky, Slovak: Štefan Simeon Olšavský, c. 1695 – 24 December 1737) was the bishop of the Vicariate Apostolic for the Ruthenians in Mukacheve from 1733 to his death in 1737.

Simon Olshavskyi was born on about 1695 in the village of Oľšavica, from which he took his surname (which originally was Židik).

[1] At the end of his studies, he was ordained a secular priest in 1719 and assigned to the Vicariate Apostolic of Mukacheve.

He received the titular see of Pella on 20 May 1735 and was consecrated bishop later in this year[3] by the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus', Atanasiy Sheptytskyi in Lviv.

A short time before consecration, Simon Olshavskyi entered the Order of Saint Basil the Great and took the religious name of Stefan.