Toma Polyanskyi


Toma Polyanskyi was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch in a present-day Ukraine and Poland. He was the Eparchial Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Przemyśl, Sambir and Sanok from 1860 to 1867.
Born in Bartne, Habsburg Monarchy in the family of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest Toma Sr. and his wife Kateryna in 1796. He was ordained a priest in 1819 by Bishop Hryhoriy Yakhymovych. He worked as a Vicar General of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Przemyśl, Sambir and Sanok from 1856 to 1860.
He was confirmed by the Holy See as an Eparchial Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Przemyśl, Sambir and Sanok on 23 March 1860. He was consecrated to the Episcopate on 2 December 1860. The principal consecrator was Metropolitan Hryhoriy Yakhymovych. He resigned as Eparchial Bishop by health reasons on 1 October 1867.
He died in Przemyśl on 11 November 1869.