Oleksii Hunovskyi

Oleksii Danylovych Hunovskyi (Ukrainian: Олексіій Данилович Гуньовський; 1882, Didyliv, Lviv Oblast, Austria-Hungary – May 1961, Borshchiv, Ternopil Oblast) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, composer, public figure, educator, and political prisoner. Head of the Chortkiv District National Council of the ZUNR.

Oleksii Hunovskyi
Олексій Гуньовський
Born1882
Didyliv, Lviv Oblast, Austria-Hungary
DiedMay 1961
Borshchiv, Ternopil Oblast
NationalityUkrainian
Alma materLviv Theological Seminarie, Przemyśl Theological Seminarie

Biography

Oleksii Hunovskyi was born in 1882 in Didyliv, now the Novyi Yarychiv Hromada of the Lviv Raion of the Lviv Oblast of Ukraine.[1][2]

Huniovskyi graduated from the Lviv and Przemyśl Theological Seminaries.[1]

On 2 September 1906, he was ordained a priest by Bishop Hryhoriy Khomyshyn.[1][2] He served as the fourth (1906–1909), third (1909–1910) cathedral staff member and catechist at the separate school on Knihynyn-Hirka in Stanyslaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk),[3] and from 1911 in Chortkiv,[1] where he was a staff member of the Church of the Dormition[4] and a catechist at the teacher's seminary and a private gymnasium.[3][5][2]

During the period of the ZUNR, he headed the Chortkiv District National Council.[1]

In 1920, he was appointed as a superior in the village of Ozeriany of the Skala Deanery. From 1921 he was at the parish in the village of Lanivtsi,[3][6][7] where he founded a cooperative, a drama club, and the mixed choir "Prosvita".[2]

On 24 November 1924, he was granted the right to wear a pelerine, named the mayor of Skalskyi and made a school commissioner.[2]

After the beginning of the oppression of the Greek Catholic Church, he held services in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast underground.[2] In 1947, he was arrested by the Borshchiv District Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Article 54-10 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR). According to the decision of the Ombudsman's Office of the USSR Ministry of State Security, he was exiled to Siberia. He was released in 1956 and returned to western Ukraine. Later he lived in Borshchiv.[1]

He wrote spiritual songs and carols[1] and was acquainted with the Ukrainian writer Bohdan Lepkyi. He played the zither well, for which he wrote down notes.[2]

Hunovskyi died in May 1961 in Borshchiv, Ternopil Oblast.[2] He was buried with his wife in the village of Lanivtsi near Borshchiv[8] (according to other sources – in Borshchiv[9]).

Family

In 1906, he married Olena Radzykevych, the daughter of Oleksandr Radzykevych. Together they raised seven children: Nadiia, Bohdan, Mariia, Dariia, Sofia, Volodymyr-Rostyslav, and Hanna (wife of at. Antonii Kaznovskyi's son Stepan).[2]

Honoring the memory

A plaque in honor of at. Oleksandr Ulianytskyi and at. Oleksii Hunovskyi was installed on the facade of the Greek Catholic Church of Saint Michael church in Lanivtsi.[8]

References
  1. Гуньовський Олексій, Реабілітовані історією. Тернопільська область : у 5 кн., О. Бажан, Є. Гасай, П. Гуцал (упорядники), Тернопіль : Терно-граф, 2020, Кн. 6, s. 142–143, ISBN 978-966-457-402-7.
  2. Добрий пастир, композитор, патріот, На перевалі духу, С. Флис, о. І. Лозинський; Івано-Франків. обл. орг. Нац. спілки краєзнавців України [та ін.], Івано-Франківськ, 2013, s. 81—86.
  3. (in English) Hun'ovs'kyj Oleksij // Dmytro Blazheyovskyi. Historical sematism of the Eparchy of Stanyslaviv: From its establishment until the outbreak of World War II (1885–1938), Записки ЧСВВ, Секція I, Т. 51, Lviv: Misioner, 2002, S. 303, ISBN 966-658-228-4.
  4. (in English) Cortkiv // Dmytro Blazheyovskyi. Historical sematism of the Eparchy of Stanyslaviv: From its establishment until the outbreak of World War II (1885–1938), Записки ЧСВВ, Секція I, Т. 51, Lviv: Misioner, 2002, S. 56, ISBN 966-658-228-4.
  5. Чортківська округа. Історично-мемуарний збірник, ред. колегія О. Соневицької та інші, Париж — Сидней — Торонто : НТШ, Український архів, 1974, Т. XXVII, s. 139.
  6. Чортківська округа. Історично-мемуарний збірник, ред. колегія О. Соневицької та інші, Париж — Сидней — Торонто : НТШ, Український архів, 1974, Т. XXVII, s. 488, 543, 606.
  7. Парафія с. Ланівці. Церква святого архистратига Михаїла, Бучацька єпархія УГКЦ. Парафії, монастирі, храми. Шематизм, Автор концепції Куневич Б.; керівник проєкту, науковий редактор Стоцький Я., Тернопіль : ТОВ «Новий колір», 2014, s. 31. : іл., ISBN 978-966-2061-30-7.
  8. Лист Борщівської міської ради від 26.04.2023 r. № 41/0310.
  9. Західноукраїнська Народна Республіка 1918—1923. Енциклопедія : у 4 т., редкол.: М. Кугутяк та ін., Івано-Франківськ : ПП «Манускрипт-Львів», 2019, Т. 2 : З — О, s. 590, ISBN невідомо.
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