Yakiv Medvetskyi was born in the family of Greek-Catholics in 1880 in the
Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv. After graduation of the popular school and gymnasium education in
Buchach and
Stanislaviv, he joined the Greek-Catholic Theological Seminary in
Lviv (1900–1904). Apostolic Administrator Medvetskyi suffered from diabetes mellitus. He died in a hospital in
Kraków, due to complications after surgery on 27 January 1941 at the age 61. ==References==