Yulian Pelesh

Yulian Pelesh (Ukrainian: Юліан Пелеш, Polish: Julian Pełesz; 3 January 1843 – 22 April 1896) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch in present-day Ukraine and Poland.

Born in Smerekowiec, Austrian Empire (present day – Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland) in the family of cantor-teacher Hryhoriy and his wife Ivanna (née Schavinska) Pelesh in 1843.

He was ordained a priest on 20 October 1867 by Bishop Toma Polyanskyi.

[2] Bishop Pelesh was the author of monumental Geschichte der Union der ruthenischen Kirche mit Rom (1878-1880)[1] and he died in Przemyśl on 22 April 1896.

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