Ivan Ljavinec (18 April 1923 – 9 December 2012) was a
Czech hierarch
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of the
Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church
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.
Ljavinec was born in Volovec,
Czechoslovakia
, rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי,
, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
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(now in Ukraine) and ordained a priest on 28 July 1946. Ljavinec was appointed titular bishop of
Acalissus as well as
Apostolic Exarch
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from Ancient Greek ἔξαρχος ''exarchos'', meaning “leader”) was the holder of any of various historical offices, some of them being political or military and others being ecclesiastical.
In the late Roman Empire and ea ...
of the
Apostolic Exarchate in the Czech Republic
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on 18 January 1996 and consecrated a bishop on 30 March 1996. Ljavinec retired as apostolic exarch on 23 April 2003.
He lived as the Apostolic Exarch emeritus in the House of St. Elżbeta in Žernůvka,
Czech Republic
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, where died. His body was transferred in Ukraine and, on 15 December 2012, buried in his native Volovec.
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Czechoslovak bishops
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Ruthenian Catholic bishops
21st-century Roman Catholic titular bishops
1923 births
2012 deaths
20th-century Roman Catholic titular bishops
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