Yosyf Semashko
Uniate bishop and Orthodox Metropolitan · Religious Figures · Lived 1799 to 1868 · aged 69
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.
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Subsequently, he became an archbishop in the Russian Orthodox hierarchy, elevated to the Metropolitan bishop of Vilnius and Lithuania in 1852.
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Lived 1799 to 1868 · aged 69
