1899
Andrei nominated (1 February) and consecrated (17 September) in L'viv as Greek Catholic bishop of Stanyslaviv. Establishes eparchial seminary and library.


Andrey (Sheptytsky) -Bishop of Stanislaviv, 1899.








St. George's Cathedral in Lviv.

1900
Bishop Andrei nominated (31 October) and installed (17 January 1901) at St. George's Cathedral in L'viv as Greek Catholic archbishop of L'viv, metropolitan of Halych, and bishop of Kamianets'-Podil's'kyi.


1901
The Metropolitan appointed vice-marshal of the Galician diet (October).


1902
The Metropolitan leads a pilgrimage of Greek Catholics to Rome on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the papacy of Leo XIII (October).


1902-1903
The Metropolitan suffers from a serious illness that almost takes his life (December 1902-March 1903).


1903
The Metropolitan is appointed member of the House of Lords in the Austrian parliament and to the Imperial Ministerial Council in Vienna (2 January). Provides funds to establish in L'viv the Narodna Lichnytsia (People's Clinic); establishes Studite monastic order.


1905
The Metropolitan establishes the Ukrainian National Museum in L'viv. Subsequently, he provides funds for a building, opened in 1913. The Metropolitan visits the Holy Land (August) with a group of pilgrims from Moravia. He convenes and presides over an eparchial sobor (28-29 December).







1906
The Metropolitan leads an archeparchial pilgrimage to the Holy Land (5-28 September). The Metropolitan prepares a book of rules for the Studite Order, later revised with his brother Klymentii and published as the Typicon.


1907
The Metropolitan meets in Rome with Pope Pius X, who reconfirms the Metropolitan's jurisdiction over the Eparchy of Kamianets' (then in the Russian Empire) and, by extension, his jurisdiction over all other former Greek Catholic eparchies in the Russian Empire (February). The Metropolitan attends and is elected president of the ecumenical Velehrad Congress in Moravia (25-29 July).


1908
Count Andrzej Potocki, viceroy of Galicia, assassinated by Ukrainian student activist (12 April). The Metropolitan condemns the act in a pastoral letter. In the autumn, he travels incognito to the Russian Empire (Belorussia, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kiev), meeting with persons inclined toward church union with Rome.


1909
The Metropolitan presides over the Second Velehrad Congress (July).


From the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, 1906.




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