1865
Roman Aleksander born (29 July), third son to Jan Kanty and Zofia Fredro Szeptycki in the family
home at Prylbychi (Polish: Przylbice), just south of Lavoriv, Austrian Galicia (today in the Ukrainian S.S.R. about thirty kilometers from the border with Poland).
1879-1883
Roman studies at the St. Anna gymnasium, Cracow,and graduates (11 June 1883). Visits Univ in June and is particularly impressed by the Eastern Christian religious and cultural relics; visits Venice (September 1883).
1883-1884
Roman volunteers for military service in the Austrian Uhlan Battalion (October 1883); discharged after contracting scarlet fever (May 1884).
1883-1887
Roman studies law (begun while in military service) at universities in Cracow and Wroclaw (German: Breslau). Travels to Rome (1886); to Kiev, Moscow, and Czestochowa (1887); to Rome again (1888).
1888
Roman completes examinations, awarded doctoral degree in law (19 May); enters the Basilian monastery at Dobromyl' (29 May); professes his vocation and adopts the name Andrei (13 September).
1889-1892
Andrei completes faculty of philosophy requirement for theological studies at the University of Cracow, residing in the Jesuit house (October 1889-June 1891). Visits Orthodox Old Believer community in Austrian Bukovina (June 1891). Recovers from typhus at the mountain resort of Zakopane (August 1891-May 1892).
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Sophia Sheptytska (Fredr) - Mother of Metropolitan.
Sheptytsky family: Leon, Sophia, Roman, Oleksandr, Jan, Kasymyr, Stanislav; 1887.
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