Yosyf Milyan,
MSU (also Romanized as Josyf Milan, ua, Йосиф Мілян; born 6 July 1956) is the titular bishop of
Drusiliana and the
auxiliary bishop of the
Archeparchy of Kyiv of the
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
Biography
Milyan was born in
Dobryany in
Lviv Oblast. He had clandestinely, because of
Communist persecution, had
monastic vows
Monasticism (from Ancient Greek , , from , , 'alone'), also referred to as monachism, or monkhood, is a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work. Monastic life plays an important role ...
in the
Univ Lavra on 8 March 1983 and was ordained as
hieromonk on 30 December 1984 by metropolitan
Volodymyr Sterniuk. He served in the different
Ukrainian Studite monasteries in Ukraine until 1997 and from 1997 until 2008 was the head of the youth ministry comission of the UGCC. In 2008 he was transferred to Kyiv and appointed the superior of the Annunciation chapel at the
Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ.
On 16 April 2009, he was confirmed by
Pope Benedict XVI as an Auxiliary Bishop of the
Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Kyiv
The Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Kyiv is an ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese (archeparchy) of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, a particular Eastern Catholic Church, that is located in the central part of Ukraine. The ordinary is ...
and appointed as a
Titular Bishop of
Drusiliana. He was consecrated as a bishop by Metropolitan
Jan Martyniak
Jan Martyniak (born on 20 June 1939, Poland) was a former archbishop and Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Przemyśl–Warsaw in Poland on its establishment on 24 May 1996 and was previously archbishop of the Eparchy of Prz ...
and co-consecrators: bishop
Yulian Voronovskyi
Bishop Yulian Voronovskyi (also exist Romanization as Julian Voronovsky, uk, Юліан Вороновський; 5 May 1936 in Humnyska, Second Polish Republic, now is Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine – 28 February 2013 in Lviv) was th ...
and bishop
Peter Stasiuk
Bishop Peter Stasiuk, C.Ss.R. ( uk, Петро Стасюк; born 16 July 1943 in Roblin, Manitoba, Canada) is an Australian Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch. He served as the second Eparchial Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saints Pet ...
in the
Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv on 18 June 2009.
References
External links
Official web-page of Kyiv archeparchySOBOR newspaper
1956 births
Living people
Clergy from Lviv
Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Studite Brethren
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