Simon Olshavskyi was born on about 1695 in the village of
Oľšavica, from which he took his surname (which originally was
Židik). He studied philosophy in
Košice and then in the
Jesuit college of
Trnava. At the end of his studies, he was ordained a
secular priest in 1719 and assigned to the Vicariate Apostolic of Mukacheve. At the death of his predecessor, he was appointed, on 26 August 1733 as general vicar by the
Latin bishop of Eger (actually at that time, following the
Union of Uzhhorod, the eparch of Mukacheve was formally an
apostolic vicar of that Latin diocese.). He received the
titular see of Pella on 20 May 1735 and was consecrated
bishop later in this year by the
Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus',
Atanasiy Sheptytskyi in
Lviv. A short time before consecration, Simon Olshavskyi entered the
Order of Saint Basil the Great and took the religious name of Stefan. Bishop Stefan Olshavskyi died in
Mukachevo on 24 December 1737. ==Notes==