Maximilian Leon Dubrawski ( uk, Максиміліан Леон Дубравський; born July 1, 1949) is the
Roman Catholic
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bishop of
Kamianets-Podilskyi
Kamianets-Podilskyi ( uk, Ка́м'яне́ць-Поді́льський, russian: Каменец-Подольский, Kamenets-Podolskiy, pl, Kamieniec Podolski, ro, Camenița, yi, קאַמענעץ־פּאָדאָלסק / קאַמעניץ, ...
.
Life
Dubrawski was born near
Zhytomyr
Zhytomyr ( uk, Жито́мир, translit=Zhytomyr ; russian: Жито́мир, Zhitomir ; pl, Żytomierz ; yi, זשיטאָמיר, Zhitomir; german: Schytomyr ) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the Capital city, a ...
, present day Ukraine.
In 1978 he entered the seminary in
Riga
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. On August 31, 1982, he joined the
Franciscan Order
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(then province Bernardine). He was ordained on May 29, 1983 in
Riga
Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...
,
Latvia
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from Cardinal
Julijans Vaivods
Julijans Vaivods (18 August 1895 in Vārkava parish, Vārkava, Latgale, Vitebsk Governorate – 24 May 1990 in Riga, Soviet Union) was the Apostolic Administrator of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Riga, Riga and of Roman Catholic Diocese of L ...
. On August 21, 1986 made his final vows. From 1983-1993 Dubrawski was pastor in
Khmilnyk and the superior of the Custody of the Holy Franciscan Order of St. Michael the Archangel (Bernardine) in Ukraine.
On April 7, 1998 he was appointed as auxiliary bishop in Kamianets-Podilskyi.
[ On 27 June 1998, received episcopal consecration at the hands of Cardinal Marian Jaworski. After the acceptance of the resignation of Bishop ]Jan Olszanski
Jan Olszanski, Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception, M.I.C. ( uk, Ян Ольшанський; pl, Jan Olszański; 14 January 1919 – 23 February 2003) was a Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate as the first diocesan Bishop of ...
on May 4, 2002 he was appointed bishop - the Bishop of Kamianets-Podilskyi. In 2008 he was appointed vice chairman of the Ukrainian Episcopate
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.
References
External links
* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdubr.html
* http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/kamy0.htm
* http://www.kresy.pl/publicystyka,ludzie?zobacz/biskup-leon-maksymilian-dubrawski
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1949 births
Living people
Ukrainian Roman Catholic bishops
Ukrainian people of Polish descent
People from Zhytomyr Oblast
Franciscan bishops
Ukrainian Friars Minor