Avhustyn Voloshyn

The Rt Rev. Avgustyn Ivanovych Monsignor Voloshyn (, , 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.

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.

After completing primary school, he started studying at the gymnasium in Uzhhorod in 1883. 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,

Personal life Voloshyn was married to Iryna Petryk.

Legacy

In 2002, by decree of then Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, Voloshyn was recognized as a Hero of Ukraine, with the civilian decoration of the Order of the State.

In March 2021 Major Archbishop of Kyiv–Galicia and Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Sviatoslav Shevchuk consecrated the monument to Voloshyn in Kyiv, at Askold's Grave.

In 2024, as part of a decommunization campaign, the Yaroslav Halan Street in Kyiv was renamed . Streets named after Voloshyn are now in various cities of Ukraine: Dnipro, Lviv, Khmelnytskyi, Uzhhorod, Ivano-Frankivsk, Mukachevo and smaller towns and villages.