Ishchak, Andrii

Ishchak, Andrii [Іщак, Андрій; Iščak, Andrij], b 23 September 1887 in Mykolaiv (Lviv region), Zhydachiv county, Galicia, d 26 June 1941 in Lviv. Ukrainian Catholic priest, educator, and theologian; full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (1935). During the First World War he served as an army chaplain. In 1918 he became prefect of the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv, and then taught canon law and Eastern dogmatics at the Greek Catholic Theological Academy (1928–39). He published a number of historical and theological studies such as ‘Uniini i avtokefal'ni zmahannia na ukraïns'kykh zemliakh vid Danyla do Izydora’ (Uniate and Autocephalous Strife in Ukrainian Lands from Danylo to Isidore, Bohosloviia [1923, 1924, 1927]), ‘De Zacharia Kopystenskyj eiusque Palinodia’ (Bohosloviia [1930–1]), and ‘Dohmatyka nez'iedynenoho Skhodu’ (Dogmatics of the Non-united East, Pratsi Hreko-Katolyts'koï bohoslovs'koï akademiï [1936]). He was shot by Soviet airmen at the outbreak of the German-Soviet War.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]