Michael Rusnak,

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, (21 August 1921 – 16 January 2003) was an American-born member of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, commonly known as the Redemptorist Fathers, who was appointed

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of the Slovak Catholic Eparchy of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto by Pope John Paul II in 1980.

Life

Born in 1921 in

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, Rusnak entered the Redemptorists in 1941 and professed

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as a member of the Congregation on August 2, 1942. He was ordained a priest on July 4, 1949 by

Pavel Peter Gojdič Pavel Peter Gojdič (also known as Pavol Gojdič or Peter Gojdič) (17 July 1888 — 17 July 1960), was a Rusyn Basilian monk and the eparch of the Slovak Catholic Eparchy of Prešov. He was imprisoned by the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. ...

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, who was later declared a martyr and beatified by the Catholic Church. On August 25, 1964, he was made was Auxiliary Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Toronto and titular bishop of

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of the Slovak Catholic Eparchy of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto on October 13, 1980. On November 11, 1996 the same pope accepted his resignation. Rusnak died on 16 January 2003.

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