The Rt Rev. Avgustyn Ivanovych Monsignor Voloshyn (Ukrainian: Авґустин Волошин, Августин Волошин, Czech: Augustin Monsignore Vološin, 17 March 1874 – 19 July 1945), also known as Augustin Voloshyn, was a Carpatho-Ukrainian politician, teacher, essayist, and Greek Catholic priest of the Eparchy of Mukachevo in Czechoslovakia. He was president of independent Carpatho-Ukraine (15–18 March 1939) during its existence.
The Rt Rev. Avgustyn Ivanovych Monsignor Voloshyn (Ukrainian: Авґустин Волошин, Августин Волошин, Czech: Augustin Monsignore Vološin, 17 March 1874 – 19 July 1945), also known as Augustin Voloshyn, was a Carpatho-Ukrainian politician, teacher, essayist, and Greek Catholic priest of the Eparchy of Mukachevo in Czechoslovakia.
He was president of independent Carpatho-Ukraine (15–18 March 1939) during its existence.
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Early life and education Avgustyn Voloshyn was born 17 March 1874 in Kelecsény, Carpathian Ruthenia, Austria-Hungary (now Kelechyn, Ukraine). The Voloshyn family were freed serfs, who in terms of social class were between the peasants and nobility. Augustyn's grandfather, Ivan, served as a Greek Catholic priest for the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo in the village of Velyki Luchky starting in 1830. Avgustyn's father was also named Ivan, and he was also ordained a priest in 1867, which is when he moved to Kelecsény together with his wife Emilia Andriyivna Zombori. Emilia herself was also from a Greek Catholic priestly family. In addition to Avgustyn, Ivan and Emilia also had three other daughters: Olga, Olena, and Elenora. His upbringing in the relatively rural village of Kelecsény would shape most of his development. The Voloshyn family was nationally conscious, as Ivan spoke almost exclusively in the Ukrainian language with his children, which was at the time considered a peasant's language, and it was he who helped instill a love for Ukraine and also a deep sense of Christianity. After completing primary school, he started studying at the gymnasium in Uzhhorod in 1883. During the gymnasium entrance exam, he was placed into…
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Career He became a Greek Catholic priest and in 1924 was appointed a papal chamberlain (thus gaining the title of Monsignor). From 1900 to 1917 he was a professor of mathematics at Uzhhorod Teacher Institute. In 1918 he became head of the Subcarpathian National Council, which in 1919 asked Czechoslovakia to confederate Carpathian Ruthenia into Czechoslovakia; this came about in autumn 1919. In 1925 he was elected an MP to Parliament in Prague, as leader of the Ruthenian National Christian Party. On 26 October 1938 Czechoslovak President Emil Hácha named Voloshyn head of the government of the Subcarpathian Autonomous Region. Following the breakup of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, Voloshyn tried to proclaim Carpatho-Ukraine's independence and, with the help of local units of the Czechoslovak Army, on 15 March 1939 for a few hours became president of Carpatho-Ukraine. He proposed, to the Kingdom of Romania, Carpatho-Ukraine's unification with Romania, but the proposal was rejected and one day later the region was occupied by, and annexed to, Hungary. On 19 March 1939 Voloshyn, under the protection of the last Czechoslovak troops, retreated to the border of Romania, an ally of Czechoslovakia. Voloshyn then fled to Prague, where he lived during the war…
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Deportation of Voloshyn (in Czech)
Newspaper clippings about Avgustyn Voloshyn in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
