Bishop Demetrius Martin Greschuk ( uk, Дмитро Мартин Ґрещук; 7 November 1923 in Innisfree, Alberta, Canada – 8 July 1990 in

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, Canada) was a Canadian

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hierarch. He served as the Titular Bishop of Nazianzus and Auxiliary Bishop of

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from 27 June 1974 until 28 April 1986 and as the second Eparchial Bishop of

from 28 April 1986 until his death on 8 July 1990.

Life

Bishop Greschuk was born in the family of ethnical Ukrainian Greek-Catholics in Canada. After the school education, he subsequently studied philosophy and theology in the St. Augustine Theological Seminary in

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. Greschuk was ordained as a

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on June 11, 1950 after completed theological studies. After that he had a various pastoral assignments and served as parish priest in the different parishes of his native

. On June 27, 1974, Fr. Greschuk was nominated by Pope

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and on October 3, 1974

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to the

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as the Titular Bishop of Nazianzus and Auxiliary Bishop of

. The principal consecrator was Bishop

Neil Savaryn Neil Nicholas Savaryn, O.S.B.M. ( uk, Ніл Микола Саварин; 19 May 1905 in Staryi Sambir, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Lviv Oblast, Ukraine) – 8 January 1986 in Edmonton, Canada) was a Ukrainian-born Canadian Ukrainian Greek ...

. Bishop Greschuk died on July 8, 1990 in the age 66.

References

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