Ivan Popel
Іван Попель
Born(1850-05-09)9 May 1850
Halych, Austrian Empire (now Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine)
Died18 February 1921(1921-02-18) (aged 70)
Dovhopole, Second Polish Republic (now Verkhovyna Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine)
NationalityUkrainian

Ivan Yosyfovych Popel (Ukrainian: Іван Йосифович Попель; 9 May 1850, Halych, Austrian Empire – 18 February 1921, Dovhopole, Second Polish Republic) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, social and cultural activist. He was the uncle of Mariyka Pidhiryanka.[1][2][3]

Biography

In 1870 he graduated from the Drohobych Gymnasium, in 1874 from Lviv University, and in 1874 from the Lviv Theological Seminary with ordination to the priesthood in Rome.[3][4]

Served in parishes in Kalush (1874–1875), Nadorozhna, Tovmach Powiat (1874–1883, employee), Hlyboka (1883–1884), Roztoky (1884–1888, administrator), Zalishchyky, Dovhopole (1888–1921).[3][4][5]

Founded cultural, educational, and economic societies in the Hutsul region.[5] He had a library that was the largest and most informative in the Kosiv region. He ran for the Austrian Parliament.[1][2]

In 1904, he opposed the Austrian regime and was imprisoned for a year.[4]

Fr. Popel's house was visited by Mariyka Pidhiryanka, Olha Kobylianska, Osyp Makovei, Ivan Franko (who corresponded with him),[4] Marko Cheremshyna, Vasyl Stefanyk, Lesya Ukrainka, and Klyment Kvitka.[1] Assisted Ivan Franko, Fedir Vovk, Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Volodymyr Shukhevych, E. Zhelikhovskyi, Bohdan Lepky, Osyp Makovei, Ivan Trush in ethnographic, ethnological, archeological, and anthropological research of the Hutsul region.[3][5][6]

Died on 18 February 1921 in Dovhopole, Verkhovyna Raion. He was buried in the cemetery near the church, the grave has not been preserved.[5]

Honoring the memory

Bohdan Lepky dedicated the poem "Khrest na kruchi" to Fr. Popel.[4]

A local school teacher, Mariyka Pidhiryanka, initiated the installation of a granite tombstone on Fr. Popel's grave; she collected exhibits and valuable materials about the parish priest, Fr. Ivan Popel, and his niece, Mariia Pidhirianka, for the school's local history room-museum.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Аделя Григорук (2021-03-29). "Стежками Лесі Українки на Гуцульщині". Слово Просвіти. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  2. 1 2 3 "Буркутське літо Марійки Підгірянки". Народна Воля. 2023-06-23. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Роман Горак. "Довгополе". Івано-Франківська обласна універсальна наукова бібліотека ім. І.Франка. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Галик, В. Взаємини Івана Франка з греко-католицьким священником з Верховинщини — Іваном Попелем // Історія релігій в Україні [Текст] : наук. щорічник. Кн. 1 / Ін-т релігієзнавства — філія Львів. музею історії релігій, Львів. від-ня Ін-ту укр. археографії. — Л. : Логос, 2012. — С. 489—503
  5. 1 2 3 4 Світлана Кукула. "Я жию тут досить добре..." Івано-Франківська обласна універсальна наукова бібліотека ім. І.Франка. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  6. ↑ Василь Нагірняк (2016-09-08). "Франкові плаї у Довгополі на Гуцульщині". Слово Просвіти. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
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