Panteleymon Shpylka
Reverend Father Panteleymon Shpylka | |
|---|---|
| Head of the Council of the Komancza Republic | |
| In office 4 November 1918 – 23 January 1919 | |
| Preceded by | Office created |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Parish priest of the St. Onuphrius Church in Wisłok Wyzhniy | |
| In office 1917–1919 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Panteleymon Shpylka Пантелеймон Шпилька 20 October 1883 Dmytrovychi, Greek Catholic priest , politician |
Panteleymon Shpylka (
Lemkivshchyna
from 4 November 1918 until 23 January 1919.
Early life
Fr. Shpylka was born in
priest on 15 March 1910, for the Eparchy of Przemyśl, Sambir and Sanok by Bishop Kostyantyn Chekhovych. In 1917 he was appointed as a parish priest in St. Onuphrius church in Wisłok Wyzhniy.[2]
Political career
In the autumn of 1918
Eastern Lemko Republic. Among other acts, also Fr. Shpylka was elected as a Head of the Council of the Republic.[3] Later, he went to neighbouring countries, trying to attract the military and financial resources necessary for the Republic's existence, but did not succeed on this ground.[4] When the army of another newly proclaimed state, Second Polish Republic, entered the territory of Komancza Republic, he avoided arrest, because he was in Czechoslovakia
.
Life in emigration
Later years he spent as priest in
displaced persons camp in Regensburg, Germany, where worked as a priest and catechist among the Greek-Catholics (1944–1948). The last year of his life he spent in Canada, where served as an assistant priest in the St. Michael church in Dauphin, Manitoba.[2]
He died in Winnipeg on 5 March 1950.[2]
References
- ^ Ямняк, Петро (1976). Звідомлення Виділу "Кружка Родичів" при Державній Ґімназії з українською мовою навчання в Перемишлі за шкільний рік 1935-1936 (PDF). Кліфтон: Ініціятивний Комітет. p. 130. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
- ^ a b c Blazejowsky, Dmytro (1988). Ukrainian Catholic clergy in diaspora (1751–1988). Rome. p. 143.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Отець Пантелеймон Шпилька. Визвольні змагання східної Лемківщини в 1918 році (in Ukrainian) // Лемківський Календар на 1967 рік. — Торонто; Пассейк, 1967.
- ^ Богдан Прах. Участь греко–католицьких священиків Лемківщини у політичних подіях 1918–1919 рр. (in Ukrainian) // Гілея: науковий вісник, 2013. т.№ 73. С.25–27