BORTNE

1842

Sts. Kosmas and Damian

BORTNE
Two famous Ukrainian religious persons come from Bortne. Here Toma Polanskyj was born in 1796. He became a priest in 1819, and was consecrated as bishop of Peremyshl in 1859. He served until his death in 1869. Also Julian Pelesh was born in Bortne in 1843. He became the parish priest at St. Barbara in Vienna. In 1885 he was consecrated as the first bishop of the new Eparchy of Stanyslaviv. Later he became the bishop in Peremyshl from 1891 to 1896. The tserkva is now used by the Polish Roman Catholic parish.