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'''Józef Teodorowicz''' ({{langx|hy|Յովսէփ Թէոֆիլ Թէոդորովիչ}}; 25 August 1864 – 4 December 1938) was the last [[Armenian Catholic Church|Armenian Catholic]] Archbishop of Lviv. All of his family were of [[Armenians|Armenian]] origin and had lived for centuries in Poland.

Teodorowicz finished a grammar school in [[Stanislaviv]] then studied with the faculty of law at [[Chernivtsi University]] in [[Bukovina]]. During his studies he suffered a crisis of belief. A year later he enrolled in the [[Roman Catholic Seminary in Lviv|Major Roman Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv]].  In 1887 he became a priest and, after the death of Archbishop Izaak Mikołaj Isakowicz of Lviv, in 1901 was named to succeed him. He is widely respected among Poles for his religious and social work.

Teodorowicz died in Lviv, where he was buried at the [[Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów]]. When the city was occupied by [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] forces during [[World War II]] his remains were transferred to a family cemetery to save them from profanation.  The first Soviet occupation of 1939–1941 prevented the nomination of a successor and during the subsequent occupations and destructive policies of Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union  the city's 700-year-old Armenian community was completely destroyed.

In 2008, the [[Polish Sejm]] recognized him as "heroic patriot".

In 2011, his remains were transferred and reburied in the [[Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów]].

==External links==
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*[http://lwow.home.pl/ormianie/teodorowicz.html Arcybiskup ormiański Józef Teofil Teodorowicz] — An article by [[Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski]]. {{in lang|pl}}
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bteodg.html Archbishop Józef Teofil Teodorowicz]
* [https://risu.ua/en/eminent-armenian-archbishop-reburied-in-lviv_n48078 Eminent Armenian archbishop reburied in Lviv]
* [https://risu.ua/ru/vo-lvove-perezahoronili-armyano-katolicheskogo-arhiepiskopa-yuzefa-teodorovicha_n48125 Armenian Catholic Archbishop Józef Teodorowicz reburied in Lviv (in Russian)]

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