Julian Sas-Kuilovsky served as priest one year in the island of Corfu and after an amnesty in 1857 he could return in Galicia, where he served in a parish near Przemyśl from 1859 to 1884, where from 1883 to 1884 he served also as rector of the Greek Catholic Seminary. On June 26, 1890, he was consecrated auxiliary bishop of the Eparchy of Przemyśl by Metropolitan Sylvester Sembratovych.[1] On 3 August 1891 he was appointed bishop of Stanyslaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk).[2] He did not won sympathy among the Ukrainians because of his pro-Polish attitude.
At end 1898 he was appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv, i.e. the primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. His appointment was later confirmed by Pope Leo XIII on June 19, 1899[3] and he was enthroned on August 30, 1899. Julian Sas-Kuilovsky died a few months later, on May 4, 1900, in Lviv.
Notes
^Ritzler, Remigius (1979). "Stanilaopolitan". Hierarchia catholica Medii aevi sive summorum pontificum, S.R.E. cardinalium, ecclesiarum antistitum series. Vol. 8. Regensberg. pp. 527–528.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
