Dorozhynsky, Dionysii

Dorozhynsky, Dionysii [Дорожинський, Діонісій; Dorožyns'kyj, Dionysij], b 31 July 1866 in Halych, d 2 July 1930 in Mizun, Dolyna county, Galicia. Ukrainian Catholic priest, theologian, and pedagogue. Dorozhynsky studied at the Academic Gymnasium of Lviv, the Barbareum seminary in Vienna, and the University of Vienna. In 1893–6 he was a catechist at the Ternopil teachers' seminary. He then taught in Lviv at the Academic Gymnasium of Lviv (1896–1906) and the Second ‘German’ Gymnasium (1906–22). From 1920 he was a professor of canon law at the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv and, from 1928, at the Greek Catholic Theological Academy. Dorozhynsky wrote an ethics textbook and the following studies: Nacherk istorii unii Ruskoi Tserkvi z Rimom (Outline of the History of the Union of the Ruthenian Church with Rome, 1896), Praznychni kartyny Hreko-Katolyts'koï Tserkvy (Pictures of Holy Days in the Greek Catholic Church, 1908), and Ohliad dzherel oriiental'noho tserkovnoho prava (A Survey of Sources of Eastern Canon Law, 1930). He was also the publisher and editor of the periodical Bohoslovs’kyi vistnyk (1900–3) and a founding member of the Ukrainian Theological Scholarly Society.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]