о. Ambrose Vasyliovych Krushelnytskyi of the Sass coat of arms (7 January 1841, Ozeriany village, now Buchach district, Ternopil region, Ukraine - 31 December 1902, Bila, now Ternopil district) - Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, public figure, choral conductor. Father of Solomiya, Hanna, Anton, Emilia, and Osypa Krushelnytsky. Son-in-law of the UGCC priest and writer Hryhorii Savchynskyi.
Adam Bonetskyi claimed that Ambrosii Lazarivych Krushelnytskyi had a brother-in-law, Ivan (1830-1902), a Greek Catholic priest of Stara Yahilnytsia.
He graduated from the Buchach Gymnasium at the Basilian Fathers' Monastery and the Lviv Theological Seminary (1872).
He served as a parish priest in the villages of Ozeriany, Soroky, Bilyavintsy, Stari Petlykivtsi, Osivtsi, and Bila, where he led choirs and amateur theatres.
He played the violin and piano. At the anniversary concerts, he conducted the choir of the "Ruska Besida" society in Ternopil. He was a friend of Ivan Franko, corresponded with Mykhailo Pavlyk and other progressive cultural and educational figures. Because of this, he had an unfavourable attitude of some of the then leaders of the UGCC.
Tombstone, Bila village
Photographed on 17 April 2009
He promoted the intellectual and musical development of children. In 1903, an artistic monument made of white marble, brought from Florence at the expense of his daughter Solomiya, was erected on his grave in the village of Bila; an epitaph:
To the best husband, the best father, honour to his mind, honour to his heart
