# Yosyf Semashko

> Joseph Semashko was a Ukrainian Eastern Catholic priest and bishop who played a central role in the highly-controversial conversion of the Ruthenian Uniate Church of the western provinces of the Russian Empire to Russian Orthodoxy between 1837 and 1839. Subsequently, he became an archbishop in the Russian Orthodox hierarchy, elevated to the Metropolitan bishop of Vilnius and Lithuania in 1852.

*Uniate bishop and Orthodox Metropolitan*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/yosyf-semashko

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Religious Figure
- **Category:** Religious Figures
- **Born:** 1799-01-07
- **Died:** 1868-12-05
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 42.1 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 7.9 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 50.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Йосиф (Семашко)](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%99%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%84_(%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%BE))
- [Ёсіф (Сямашка)](https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%81%D1%81%D1%96%D1%84_(%D0%A1%D1%8F%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B0))
- [Іосіф (Сямашка)](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%96%D1%84_(%D0%A1%D1%8F%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B0))
- [Joseph Semashko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Semashko)
- [Joseph Semachko](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Semachko)
- [Iosif Semashko](https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosif_Semashko)
- [Józef (Siemaszko)](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_(Siemaszko))
- [José Semashko](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Semashko)
- [Иосиф (Семашко)](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%84_(%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%BE))
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1989980)

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