Fr. Dmytro Leshchyshyn papers
Scope and Contents
Contains extensive correspondence with a wide range of individuals and organizations both religious and secular. It also includes personal and family correspondence, membership lists, other organizational records and publications, and similar materials. More details of contents are provided at the file level below.
Фонд складається з листування з широким колом людей та організацій як релігійних, так і світських. Він також включає особисту та сімейну переписку, членських списків, інші організаційні записи та публікації та подібні матеріали.
Dates
- 1924 - 1951
- Majority of material found within 1924 - 1944
Language of Materials
Approximately 90% Ukrainian, 10% English, and a few individual documents in German and Polish.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for researcher use. Please contact the archivist (archives@ukrhec.org) for more information and to make arrangements.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright restrictions may apply.
Biographical / Historical
Fr. Dmytro Leshchyshyn was a Ukrainian Orthodox clergyman in the United States and Canada in the early to mid 20th century, eventually becoming a member of the Consistory of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA. He was born on November 5, 1899 in the village of Rozhanivka (today Zalishchyky raion, Ternopil oblast', Ukraine). He completed the Kopychyntsi Gymnasium in 1914. He emigrated to Canada in or before 1925, completed seminary in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1926, and was ordained to the priesthood on July 16, 1926 by Archbishop Ioan Teodorovych in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was assigned to parishes in Winnipeg (1926-1928); Dauphin, Manitoba (1928-1931); Goodeve, Saskatchewan (1931-1932); Toronto (1932-1936); and Windsor, Ontario (1936-1937) before moving to the United States in December 1937.
In the US, he served parishes in Abp. Ioan's eparchy, including St. Louis, Missouri (1937-1938); Woonsocket, Rhode Island (1938-1944); Cleveland, Ohio (1944-1950); Newark, New Jersey (1950-1955); Providence, Rhode Island (1959-1961); and Arnold, Pennsylvania (from 1961). He held the office of Secretary of the Consistory in the 1940s and 1950s.
Extent
1.3 Linear Feet
Abstract
Fr. Dmytro Leshchyshyn was a Ukrainian Orthodox clergyman in the United States and Canada in the early to mid 20th century. This collection contains his extensive correspondence with a wide range of individuals and organizations both religious and secular. It also includes personal and family correspondence, membership lists, other organizational records and publications, and similar materials.
Status of materials
These materials belong to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA, and are on deposit with the Ukrainian History and Education Center for processing, preservation, and access.
Processing Information
Materials were originally housed in one expanding alphabetical file folder and two top-punch two-ring binders, one of which had English alphabetical dividers. The expanding file contained correspondence primarily from the 1920s and 1930s, while the two ring binder with alphabetical dividers contained correspondence primarily from the 1940s. The other two ring binder had correspondence with Fr. Semen Sawchuk and Abp. Ioan Teodorovych, separated by a cardboard divider. The expanding file and two ring binder with alphabetical dividers are the current Subseries 1 and 2 (respectively) of Series 1, and the other two ring binder is Series 2. Otherwise, original order has been retained.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Michael Andrec
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Ukrainian History and Education Center Archives Repository