Yakiv Medvetskyi
Very Reverend Yakiv Medvetskyi was a Greek Catholic hierarch. He served as the second Apostolic Administrator of the Apostolic Administration of Lemkowszczyzna from 3 July 1936 until his death on 27 January 1941.
Life
Yakiv Medvetskyi was born in the family of Greek-Catholics in 1880 in the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv. After graduation of the popular school and gymnasium education in Buchach and Stanislaviv, he joined the Greek-Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv.He was ordained as priest on 7 April 1905 by Bishop Blessed Hryhoriy Khomyshyn for the Eparchy of Stanislaviv, after completed his studies. After the one year parish work, Fr. Medvetskyi continued to study in the University of Vienna with Doctor of Theology degree in 1910. He was a professor of the Biblical subjects in the Theological Seminary in Stanislaviv from 1910 until 1936 and vice-rector of the same Seminary from 1912 until 1936.
On 3 July 1936 Fr. Medvetskyi was appointed by Pope Pius XI the second Apostolic Administrator of the Apostolic Administration of Lemkowszczyzna without dignity of bishop.
Apostolic Administrator Medvetskyi suffered from diabetes mellitus. He died in a hospital in Kraków, due to complications after surgery on 27 January 1941 at the age 61.