Question: Shchedryk was arranged by a composer and teacher who was born and raised in the Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire, and educated where as a priest?

Context articles: Podolia Governorate
Alexander Veprik
Leonid Isaakovich Vail
Pskov Governorate
Isidor Zuckermann
Viktor Bunyakovsky
Valerian Safonovich
Shchedryk (song)
Zygmunt Miłkowski
Mykola Leontovych

The Podolia Governorate or Government of Podolia, set up after the Second Partition of Poland, comprised a governorate ("guberniya") of the Russian Empire from 1793 to 1917, of the Ukrainian People's Republic from 1917 to 1921, and of the Ukrainian SSR from 1921 to 1925.
Alexander Moiseyevich Veprik, also Weprik, (Russian: Александр Моисеевич Веприк ; 23 June 1899 in Balta, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire, now Ukraine – 13 October 1958 in Moscow) was a Russian (Ukrainian; Soviet) composer and music educator.
 Veprik is considered one of the greatest composers of the "Jewish school" in Soviet music.
Leonid Isaakovich Vail (12 May 1883 – 23 January 1945) was a Russian Painter and art theorist.
 He was born in Vinnytsia, in the Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine), to a family of Russian-Jewish Traders.
 Vail spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school, later enrolling at the Imperial Academy of Arts, St.Petersburg.
 Vail began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 17.
Pskov Governorate (Russian: Псковская губерния , "Pskovskaya guberniya") was an administrative division (a "guberniya") of the Russian Empire, which existed from 1772 until 1777 and from 1796 until 1927.
 Its seat was located in Opochka between 1772 and 1776, and in Pskov after 1776.
 The governorate was located in the west of Russian Empire and bordered (after 1796) Saint Petersburg Governorate in the north, Novgorod Governorate in the northeast, Tver Governorate in the east, Smolensk Governorate in the southeast, Byelorussia Governorate (since 1802, Vitebsk Governorate) in the south, and the Governorate of Livonia in the west.
 In terms of modern administrative division of Russia, the area of the governorate is currently split between Pskov, Tver, and Novgorod Oblasts.
 The former border between Pskov Governorate and the Governorate of Livonia still largely corresponds to the state border between Russia in the east and Estonia and Latvia in the west.
Isidor Zuckermann (May 21, 1866 – 1946) was an Austrian businessman.
 He was born near Kamianets-Podilskyi in the Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire (modern-day Ukraine), and emigrated with his family to the United Kingdom in 1939.
 He died in Keswick, Cumbria in 1946.
 He is interred in St. John's Church Cemetery, Keswick.
Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky (Russian: Ви́ктор Я́ковлевич Буняко́вский , Ukrainian: Ві́ктор Я́кович Буняко́вський ; 16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1804 , Bar, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire – 12 December [O.S. 30 November] 1889 , St. Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian mathematician, member and later vice president of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
Valerian Ivanovich Safonovich (Russian: Валерья́н Ива́нович Сафоно́вич ; 1798, Podolia Governorate — April 8, 1867, Oryol) — was a Russian statesman and politician who served as ruler of Oryol Governorate from 1854 to 1861.
"Shchedryk" (from , "Bountiful Evening") is a Ukrainian "shchedrivka", or New Year's carol, known in English as "The Little Swallow".
 It was arranged by composer and teacher Mykola Leontovych in 1916, and tells a story of a swallow flying into a household to sing of wealth that will come with the following spring.
 "Shchedryk" was originally sung on the night of January 13, New Year's Eve in the Julian Calendar (December 31 Old Style), which is "Shchedry Vechir".
 Early performances of the piece were made by students at Kyiv University.
Zygmunt Miłkowski, pseudonym Teodor Tomasz Jeż (March 23, 1824 Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire — January 11, 1915 Lausanne, Switzerland) was Polish romantic writer and politician who struggled for independence of Poland as leader of Polish Union (Polish: "Liga Polska" ).
 He became a member of the Serbian Learned Society in 1869, the society which preceded the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Leontovych was born and raised in the Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine).
 He was educated as a priest in the Kamianets-Podilskyi Theological Seminary and later furthered his musical education at the Saint Petersburg Court Capella and private lessons with Boleslav Yavorsky.
 With the independence of the Ukrainian state in the 1917 revolution, Leontovych moved to Kiev where he worked at the Kiev Conservatory and the Mykola Lysenko Institute of Music and Drama.
 He is recognized for composing "Shchedryk" in 1904 (which premiered in 1916), known to the English-speaking world as "Carol of the Bells" or "Ring, Christmas Bells".
 He is known as a martyr in the Eastern Orthodox Ukrainian Church, where he is also remembered for his liturgy, the first liturgy composed in the vernacular, specifically in the modern Ukrainian language.
 He was assassinated by a Soviet agent in 1921.