Rudovych, Ivan

Rudovych, Ivan [Рудович, Іван; Rudovyč], b 1868, d 16 August 1929 in Lviv. Ukrainian Catholic priest and pedagogue. From 1897 a religion teacher in elementary schools and secondary schools in Lviv, he was the longtime head of the Society of Saint Paul the Apostle and a founding member of the Ukrainian Theological Scholarly Society. He wrote textbooks and popular works on religious themes and about the history of the Ukrainian church, including Uniia v Lvovs'koi eparkhii (The Church Union in Lviv Eparchy, 1900) and Korotka istoriia Halytsko-L'vovskoi eparkhii (A Short History of Halych-Lviv Eparchy, 1901).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]