Julije Drohobeczky


Julije Drohobeczky was a Ruthenian and Croatian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was the bishop from 1891 to 1917 of the Eastern Catholic Eparchy of Križevci. From 1917 he was the titular bishop of Polybotus.
Born in Gany, near Uzhhorod, Austrian Empire in 1853, he was ordained a priest on 27 March 1881 for the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve. Fr. Drohobeczky was active in popular education and local politic in Zakarpattia.
He was confirmed as the Bishop by the Holy See on 17 December 1891. He was consecrated to the Episcopate on 26 May 1892. The principal consecrator was Bishop Yuliy Firtsak and co-consecrators were Bishop Ján Vályi and Bishop Mihail Pavel.
He died in Strmac Pribićki, Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 11 February 1934.