Ivan Buchko or Bučko ( uk, Іван Бучко; 1 October 1891 – 21 September 1974) was a

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hierarch in present-day Ukraine, United States and Italy. He was the auxiliary bishop of the

Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv The Archeparchy of Lviv is a metropolitan archeparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. History Eparchy of Halych (1156 – 1406) The eparchy was established as the Orthodox Eparchy of Halych suffragan to Metropolitan of Kiev at some tim ...

from 1929 to 1940, the auxiliary bishop of the Apostolic Exarchat in the United States for the Ukrainians from 1940 to 1945 and the first Apostolic Visitator for the Ukrainians in the Western Europe from 1945 to 1971. From 20 October 1929 as titular bishop of Cadi and from 27 April 1953 as titular archbishop of Leucas.

Biography

Born in Hermaniv, Austria-Hungary Empire (present day – Tarasivka,

Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast ( uk, Льві́вська о́бласть, translit=Lvivska oblast, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna ( uk, Льві́вщина, ), ). The name of each oblast is a wikt:Appendix:Glossary#relational, relational adjective—in Englis ...

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) in the Ukrainian peasant family of Hryhoriy, who was a church cantor, and Horpyna in 1891. He was

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on 21 February 1915 by Bishop

Lazar Mladenov Lazar Mladenov ( bg, Лазар Димитров Младенов) (July 11, 1854 – March 4, 1918) was a Bulgarian Orthodox priest and, later, a member of the Bulgarian Uniat Church in the Ottoman Empire and a convert to Eastern Catholicism. Bi ...

for the

. He worked as a rector of the Greek-Catholic minor seminary in

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...

from 1922 to 1929. He was appointed by the

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an auxiliary bishop of the

on 16 September 1929. He was

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to the

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on 20 October 1929 in the church of Santi Sergio e Bacco in

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. The principal consecrator was Metropolitan

Andrey Sheptytsky Andrey Sheptytsky, OSBM (; uk, Митрополит Андрей Шептицький; 29 July 1865 – 1 November 1944) was the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1901 until his death in 1944. His tenure spann ...

, and the principal co-consecrators were Blessed Bishop Hryhory Khomyshyn and Blessed Bishop

Josaphat Kotsylovsky Josaphat Joseph Kotsylovsky ( uk, Йосафат Йосиф Коциловський) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and martyr. Kotsylovsky was born 3 March 1876 in the village of Pakoszowka (then Austria-Hungary, now Poland), of the ...

. He was an Apostolic Visitator for the Ukrainians in Argentina and Brazil from 1939 to 1940 and for the Ukrainians in the Western Europe from 1945 to 1971. At the end of the Second World War, Buchko organized the escape of the entire Waffen-SS Galitsia Division to South and North America. Also with his blessing were hiding in the Ukrainian Pontifical College of Saint Josaphat in

from the Nazi persecution some members of the

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. Archbishop Buchko retired on 29 September 1971. He participated in the

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as a Council Father in the 1960s. He died in

on 21 September 1974.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Buchko, Ivan 1891 births 1974 deaths People from Lviv Oblast People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians 20th-century Eastern Catholic bishops Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Ukrainian emigrants to Italy Ukrainian diaspora in Italy Participants in the Second Vatican Council