Born in
Beňatina,
Habsburg monarchy (present day –
Slovakia) in 1732 in the family of the Ruthenian priest Teodor Bachynskyi. He was
ordained a
priest on 2 September 1756 for the
Vicariate Apostolic for Ruthenians by Bishop
Manuil Olshavskyi. He was confirmed as the Bishop by the
Holy See on 8 March 1773. He was
consecrated to the
Episcopate on 6 June 1773. The principal
consecrator was Bishop
Vasilije Božičković and co-consecrators were Bishop
Meletie Covaci and Bishop
Franz Josef von Gondola. During his episcopacy, in 1777, the bishop's see was transferred from
Mukacheve to
Uzhgorod. He died in
Uzhgorod on 19 November 1809. ==References==