Nestor Dmytriw

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Nestor Dmytriw 1905

Nestor Dmytriw ( Ukrainian Нестор Дмитрів ; * 1863 in Scherebky , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austria-Hungary ; † May 27, 1925 in Elizabeth , New Jersey , United States ) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, author and translator.

Life

Nestor Dmytriw was born into a peasant family in the eastern Galician town of Scherebky ( Жеребки ) in what is now Pidvolochysk Raion in the Ukrainian Oblast of Ternopil . He graduated from the academic high school in Lviv in 1890 and then studied theology at the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv.

He was ordained a priest by Metropolitan Sylwester Sembratowicz in 1894 and emigrated to the United States in 1895, where he settled in Mount Carmel , Pennsylvania . There he combined the missionary work among the Ukrainian industrial workers with journalistic activities in Jersey City as editor of the first Ukrainian-language newspaper in North America "Swoboda" ( Свобода ).

At the request of Ukrainian settlers in Canada who urgently needed priests, the newly founded Ruthenian National Union (Ukrainian Руський Народний Союз ), which renamed itself the Ukrainian National Association (UNA) in 1914 , sent him to Winnipeg, Canada in April 1897 . Since he spoke fluent German, Ukrainian and English, he was appointed interpreter of the Canadian immigration department with the help of Joseph Oleskiw (1860-1903) and was the first Ukrainian priest in Canada to organize the first Ukrainian parishes there. In addition, campaigned for its own Greek Catholic Church in Canada, which was initially rejected by the Roman Catholic hierarchy, but finally on June 15, 1912 by Pope Pius X with the Apostolic Constitution Officium Supremi for the establishment of the Apostolic Exarchate Canada , the later Winnipeg Archepark , was realized.

In August 1898, due to physical exhaustion and financial difficulties, he returned to the USA, where he again wrote for the newspaper "Swoboda" on social and church issues and published his works on the history of Ukrainian emigration in America. He also served in several Catholic Ukrainian wards in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He died in the city of Elizabeth in 1925 and was buried in Hillside / Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Web links

Commons : Nestor Dmytriw  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Oleh W. Gerus, "DMYTRIW, NESTOR" , in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography , vol. 15, University of Toronto / Université Laval, 2003–; accessed on December 14, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Entry on Nestor Dmytriw in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on December 14, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. ^ Pius X: Const. Apost. Officium supremi , AAS 4 (1912), n.16, pp. 555f.
  4. ^ Memory of a once forgotten priest - Father Nestor Dmytriw in The Ukrainian Weekly of January 6, 2017; accessed on December 14, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Dmytriw, Nestor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Дмитрів, Нестор (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Scherebky , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1925
Place of death Elizabeth , New Jersey , United States