Michael Kuchmiak,

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(February 5, 1923 – August 26, 2008) was a bishop of the

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and

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of ''Agathopolis'' since 1988. Kuchmiak was born in Obertyn,

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. The Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic Church and

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appointed Kuchmiak as auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia on 8 March 1988. He received his episcopal ordination on 27 April 1988, with

Stephen Sulyk Stephen Sulyk ( uk, Стефа́н Су́лик; October 2, 1924 – April 6, 2020) was a Ukrainian-American hierarch who was an archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He died from complications brought on by COVID-19 during the C ...

, Archeparch of Philadelphia, as his principal consecrator and Maxim Hermaniuk and Innocent Lotocky as co-consecrators. He remained pastor of the Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family in

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until his appointment on 11 July 1989 as the

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of the Apostolic Exarchate for Ukrainians in Great Britain. Sulyk 2004, p.400 On April 5, 2002, the Pope accepted the resignation of Apostolic Exarch Mykhailo Kuchmyak from the government in connection with his reaching the age of retirement. Kuchmiak died in 2008 in

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, Saskatchewan, Canada.

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