Born in Smerekowiec, Austrian Empire (present day – Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland) in the family of cantor-teacher Hryhoriy and his wife Ivanna (née Schavinska) Pelesh in 1843. He was ordained a priest on 20 October 1867 by Bishop Toma Polyanskyi. He served as a prefect in the Theological Seminary in Lviv from 1870 to 1874 and the Rector of the Central Theological Seminary in Vienna from 1875 to 1883.[1]
Bishop Pelesh was the author of monumental Geschichte der Union der ruthenischen Kirche mit Rom (1878-1880)[1] and he died in Przemyśl on 22 April 1896.
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^ abBlazejowsky, Dmytro (1988). Ukrainian Catholic clergy in diaspora (1751-1988). Rome. p. 179.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)