Volodymyr Hromnytskyi

Volodymyr Hromnytskyi (; 11 August 1862 – 23 November 1938) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, Kryloshanin, religious and public figure. Founding member of the City Brotherhood. Father of Isydor Hromnytskyi, sotnyk of the Ukrainian Galician Army and commander of the railway station in Ternopil during the period of the West Ukrainian People's Republic.

Biography He was born on 11 August 1862 in Krasne in Kalush Powiat, now Kalush Raion in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.

Ordained on 15 March 1885. After ordination, he served as a priest in the parishes of Lysiatychi (1885–1888) and Zhuravno (1888–1889), and worked as an administrator in Zhuravno for a year.

In 1890, he became a priest in the Ternopil parish of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (until 1893), and in 1895 he became its head (from 1893, after the death of father-dean , he was its administrator ). He was the long-time parish priest of the Church of the Nativity of Jesus Christ in Ternopil. He participated in the organization and work of Ukrainian societies. As the head of the branch of the "Ridna Shkola" society, he promoted the activities of educational institutions: a girls' gymnasium, a student bursary, a branch of the "Prosvita" society, the Rusyn and Pedagogical societies, the "Ukrainian Bursa", the "City Brotherhood" (founding member in 1890, chairman in 1895–1921),

Vice-dean (1898–1901), administrator (1901–1902), and dean of the Ternopil Deanery of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1901–1927); honorary member of the clergy (1903–1938) and member of the Lviv Metropolitan Consistory of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1927–1938).

On 18 October 2020, a monument was erected in Ternopil in honor of Hromnytskyi on the grounds of the History Department of the Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University.