Omelian Hlibovytskyi

Omelian Mykhailovych Hlibovytskyi was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, novelist, publicist, public figure. Son of Mykhailo, brother of Dariia, Domna and Lonhyn, father of Vasyl Hlibovytskyi, uncle of Bohdan, Levko and Mykola Lepkyi.

Biography

Omelian Hlibovytskyi was born in 1856 in Krohulets, now the Vasylkivtsi Hromada, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.
Hlibovytskyi graduated from the Lviv Theological Seminary and was ordained a priest at the same time. He served in parishes in the town of Melnytsia-Podilska and the villages of Khudykivtsi, Bilche-Zolote, Tsyhany, Hlybochok in the Chortkiv district. Author of articles and short stories.
In 1895, Mykhailo Dorundiak, Bohdan Lepkyi, Ivan Trush, Ivan Franko, Andrii Chaikovskyi, and Vasyl Shchurat visited Hlibovytskyi in Tsyhany. He corresponded with Ivan Franko.