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Bishop Markell Popel

Markell Onufrijewitsch Popel (also: Marcian , Russian Маркелл Онуфриевич Попель ; born December 31, 1825 in Halych ; † September 29, 1903 in St. Petersburg ) was a Russian Orthodox bishop of Ukrainian origin.

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Popel was born into a noble Greek Catholic family. At the German school in Halytsch he attended four classes and then the grammar school in Butschatsch . He graduated from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Tschernowitz and studied theology in Lemberg and Vienna .

In 1850 Popel was ordained a Greek Catholic priest and got a job as a pastor in Butschatsch. He also taught a. a. as a Russian and religion teacher at high schools in Ternopil and Lemberg . He was interested in literature and published his own texts in various newspapers.

Widowed in 1864, Popel moved with his two sons to Moscow in 1866, from where he moved to Chełm with other Russophile clergy in 1867 . There he was active as a lecturer for moral theology and liturgy at the uniate seminary . He received Russian citizenship and held positions of responsibility in the administration of the diocese and served as pastor in the Cathedral of Chełm .

Popel played a key role in the dissolution of the Greek Catholic diocese and its "conversion" to the Russian Orthodox Church, a process that Ukrainian sources describe mostly as forced conversion, and in Russian Orthodox texts also as "reunification". In 1871 he led a delegation to St. Petersburg, where he asked for the 120 parishes of his diocese to join the Orthodox Church.

Following the dissolution and the transition to Orthodoxy, Popel was appointed Bishop of Lublin in 1875; in December 1878 as Bishop of the Diocese of Kamianets-Podilskyi . In 1882 he became bishop of Polotsk and Vitebsk.

He died in St. Petersburg in 1903 and was buried there.

literature

  • John-Paul Himka: Religion and nationality in Western Ukraine: the Greek Catholic Church and Ruthenian National Movement in Galicia, 1867-1900 - Chapter “The Conversion of Chelm Eparchy to Orthodoxy” pp. 57–64 Google Books

Individual evidence

  1. Website of the Foundation "Russian Orthodox Christianity" - Благотворительный фонд «Русское Православие». ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. According to another source lublin.cerkiew.pl year of birth 1821, place of birth Meducha near Halytsch @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ortho-rus.ru
  2. Volodymyr Kubiĭovych, Danylo Husar Struk (ed.) Encyclopedia of Ukraine , Volume 4 University of Toronto Press, 1993. ISBN 0-8020-3362-8
  3. mirslovarei.com , website of the foundation “Russian Orthodox Christianity” - Благотворительный фонд «Русское Православие». ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ortho-rus.ru