Soter Ortynsky
| Stephen Soter Ortynsky | |
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| Church | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
| Appointed | March 26, 1907 |
| Term ended | March 24, 1916 |
| Successor | Constantine Bohachevsky, Basil Takach |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | July 18, 1891 (Priest) |
| Consecration | May 12, 1907 (Bishop) by Andrey Sheptytsky |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 29, 1866 Ortynychi, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire |
| Died | March 24, 1916 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Stephen Soter Ortynsky (1866-1916) was the first Bishop of all Greek Catholics in the United States.
Soter Stephen Ortynsky de Labetz was born in Ortynychi, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine on January 29, 1866, then part of Galicia.
January 1, 1889 he made his vows with the Basilian Order.
July 18, 1891 he was ordained a priest by Metropolitan of Lviv Sylvester Sembratovych and celebrated his first Liturgy at the Monastery Church in Dobromyl.
March 26, 1907 Pope Pius X appointed him bishop for the Greek Catholics in America and named him titular Bishop of Daulia.
May 12, 1907 consecrated Bishop by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, Bishop Constantine Chechovych and Bishop Gregory Chomyshyn in St. George's Cathedral, Lviv.
May 28, 1913, the Apostolic See named Bishop Ortynsky as exarch, granting him full ordinary jurisdiction making him independent of every Latin diocese. On August 17, 1914, the Congregation de propaganda fide put out a decree about the governance of the Greek Catholic Church for the next ten years called: “Cum Episcopo”. It had four main points: 1) The bishop is subject only to the apostolic see and his seat is to be New York City while the vicar general and rector of the seminary should be in Philadelphia; 2) That they establish a seminary; 3) That the faithful should belong to their own church; and 4) Deals with mixed marriages and states that youth should be baptized in the rite of the father.
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