Oleksander Lototsky

Oleksander Lototsky (Олекса́ндр Ігна́тович Лото́цький; Алекса́ндр Игна́тьевич Лото́цкий) was a Ukrainian statesman, diplomat, writer, and scientist. He was a member of the Association of the Ukrainian Progressionists (TUP).

Biography
Lototsky graduated from the Kiev Theological Academy in 1896. In 1900-17, he worked in the office of state controller in Kiev and Saint Petersburg. During World War I Lototsky served as a gubernatorial commissar of Bukovina and Pokuttia. In 1917, he also one of organizers of the Ukrainian National Council in Saint Petersburg.

In January 1918 he went to Kiev and was immediately appointed Secretary General (Minister) in the General Secretariat of the Ukrainian Centralna Rada. In the spring of 1918 he was briefly Minister of State Control in the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, and in the Ukrainian State he was Minister of Religious Affairs in October/November 1918. As such, he was instrumental in the January 1, 1919 declaration of autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

In January 1919, he was appointed Ambassador of Ukraine to Turkey, and traveled to Constantinople on a diplomatic mission to obtain recognition of the status of the new church from the Patriarch of Constantinople. Due to the occupation of Turkey by the Entente and the Bolshevik takeover of Ukraine, he emigrated to Vienna in March 1920 and to Prague in 1922, where he was a lecturer and eventually professor of canon law at the Ukrainian Free University until 1928. From 1929 until his death he was professor of Orthodox Church history at the University of Warsaw.

Between 1930 and 1939 he was director of the Ukrainian Scientific Institute in Warsaw. He also served as Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister of the Government-in-Exile of the Ukrainian People's Republic from 1927 to 1930.

He died in Warsaw at the age of 69. His ashes were transferred to St. Andrew Cemetery in South Bound Brook, New Jersey, United States, in 1971 and reburied.

Lototsky had a daughter Oksana who married Ivan-Stepan Tokarzhevsky.