Andrés Sapelak,

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( uk, Андрій Михайлович Сапеляк; pl, Andrzej Sapelak; December 13, 1919 – November 6, 2017) was an

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of the

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. At the time of his death he was the oldest bishop in this Eastern Catholic Church. Stemma_Andrii

Biography

Sapelak was born in Ryszkowa Wola,

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, in the Ukrainian family of Mykhaylo and Ahafiya (née Yarosh) Sapelak and ordained a priest on June 29, 1949, joining the

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. He was appointed Auxiliary bishop of Faithful of the Oriental Rites (Argentina) as well as Titular Bishop of Sebastopolis on August 14, 1961, and consecrated on October 15, 1961. On February 9, 1968, Sapelak was appointed bishop of Eparchy of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires where he remained until his retirement on December 12, 1997. Sapelak then returned to Ukraine and worked as parish priest in Verkhnodniprovsk city in the

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from 1999 until 2014. In November 2013, he received Ukrainian citizenship. On November 6, 2017, he died in the Salesian house in Vynnyky near

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, where he resided from 2014.

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1919 births 2017 deaths People from Jarosław County Argentine bishops Ukrainian bishops 20th-century Eastern Catholic bishops 21st-century Eastern Catholic bishops Salesian bishops Salesians of Don Bosco Participants in the Second Vatican Council Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Naturalized citizens of Ukraine {{UkrainianGreekCatholic-bishop-stub