Basil Shereghy
Basil Shereghy was a leading Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church priest and professor, as well as a cultural activist for Rusyns in the United States.
He was born in Dorobratovo, Austria-Hungary, Hungary. Ordained in 1942 in the Eparchy of Mukachevo, he taught in the Greek Catholic seminary in Uzhorod during World War II.
In 1946 he emigrated to the US, serving for the rest of his life in the Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh. He worked as a professor of language and liturgy at the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He also was a longtime editor of the diocesan newspaper Byzantine Catholic World, which he co-founded.Death
He died on 16 June 1988 in Pittsburgh.Books
- What Are Greek Catholics?,
- Vospitanije podkarpato-ruskoho svjaščenstva / The training of Carpatho-Ruthenian clergy, co-author with Basil Pekar,
- Greek Catholic Dictionary,
- The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Ruthenian Form,
- The Liturgical Year of the Byzantine-Slavonic Rite,
- A Historical Album Compiled on the Occasion of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the United Societies, editor,
- Bishop Basil Takach "The Good Shepherd",
- The Byzantine Catholics,
