Bishop Leon Malyi ( uk, Леон Малий; pl, Leon Mały; born 17 August 1958 in

Bar, Vinnytsia Oblast Bar ( uk, Бар; pl, Bar; russian: Бар) is a town located on the Riv River in the Vinnytsia Oblast (province) of central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Bar Raion (district), and is part of the historic region of Podolia. The ...

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) is a Ukrainian

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prelate, the Titular Bishop of

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and Auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Lviv since 4 May 2002. Biskupi lwowsy-2006

Life

Leon Malyi was born in the family of Yan and Henovefa (née Hutsal) Malyi in the

Podolia Podolia or Podilia ( uk, Поділля, Podillia, ; russian: Подолье, Podolye; ro, Podolia; pl, Podole; german: Podolien; be, Падолле, Padollie; lt, Podolė), is a historic region in Eastern Europe, located in the west-central ...

. After graduation of the school education, continued to study at the Lviv cinema college. In the same time he joined the clandestine Roman Catholic Theological Seminary under the supervision of Father Henrik Mosing: he was ordained as

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on June 7, 1984, by clandestine Bishop Jan Cienski (single Roman Catholic bishop in the territory of Ukraine) after graduation of the theological studies. During 1984–1990 he worked as a clandestine priest in the Podolia region and after the

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began to work openly until 1995. Fr. Malyi continued to study in the

Pontifical University of the Holy Cross Pontifical University of the Holy Cross ( la, Pontificia Universitas Sanctae Crucis, it, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce) is a Roman Catholic university under the Curial Congregation for Catholic Education, now entrusted to the Prela ...

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with

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degree (1995–2000). He returned to Ukraine in 2000 and began to work as a Prefect in the Major Roman Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv (2000–2002). On May 4, 2002, he was appointed by

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as the second Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Lviv, Ukraine, and

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. On June 20, 2002, he was consecrated as bishop by Metropolitan Archbishop Marian Cardinal Jaworski and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church.

References

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