Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky

Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky
Major Archbishop of Lviv
Church	Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Appointed	7 September 1984
Reign ended	14 December 2000
Predecessor	Cardinal Josyf Slipyj
Successor	Cardinal Lubomyr Husar
Orders
Ordination	21 Sept 1938 (Priest)
Consecration	12 Nov 1979 (Bishop) by John Paul II
Created Cardinal	25 May 1985
Personal details
Born	24 June 1914 Dolyna, Austria-Hungary
Died	14 December 2000 Lviv, Ukraine
Buried	St. George's Cathedral, Lviv 49°50′19.48″N 24°0′46.19″E / 49.8387444°N 24.0128306°E / 49.8387444; 24.0128306

Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky (Ukrainian: Мирослав Іван Любачівський; 24 June 1914, Dolyna, Austria-Hungary - 14 December 2000, Lviv, Ukraine), Cardinal, was Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia in the United States and from 1984 Major Archbishop of Lviv and head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC).

Life

He was ordained a priest of the Archeparchy of Lviv in 1938 by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and then continued his doctoral studies in theology in Austria. After World War II, he was unable to return to Ukraine and emigrated to the United States, where he continued his pastoral work, first as a priest at St. Peter and Paul Church in Cleveland, Ohio, beginning in 1949, and then from 1968 as a teacher at the St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in Washington. He also taught at St. Basil's College in Philadelphia and St. Basil's Academy in Stamford, Connecticut before being ordained archbishop of Philadelphia in 1979.

Pope John Paul II appointed Lubachivsky coadjutor to Cardinal Josyf Slipyj in 1979. Upon Cardinal Slipyj's death in 1984, he took over as head of the UGCC. In 1985, Pope John Paul II gave him the title of Cardinal Priest of S. Sofia a Via Boccea.^[1]

Soviet authorities lifted the ban against the Church in 1989, and Lubachivsky along with other leadership of the UGCC officially returned to Lviv from exile on March 30, 1991.

Lubachivsky is buried in St. George's Cathedral in Lviv.

Notes

1. ^ David M. Cheney. "Myroslav Ivan Cardinal Lubachivsky". Catholic-hierarchy. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bluba.html. Retrieved 27 March 2011. 

External links

• Myroslav Ivan Cardinal Lubachivsky bio

Preceded by Joseph M. Schmondiuk	Ukrainian Catholic Archeparch of Philadelphia 1979—1980	Succeeded by Stephen Sulyk
Preceded by Josyf Slipyj	Major Archbishop of Lviv 1984—2000	Succeeded by Lubomyr Husar

Persondata
Name	Lubachivsky, Myroslav Ivan
Alternative names
Short description	Major Archbishop of Lviv
Date of birth	24 June 1914
Place of birth	Dolyna, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	14 December 2000
Place of death	Lviv, Ukraine