Bishop Mykhaylo Koltun,

C.Ss.R. The Redemptorists officially named the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer ( la, links=no, Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris), abbreviated CSsR,is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men (priests and brother ...

( uk, Михайло Колтун; born 29 March 1949 in Polonychi,

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) is a

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hierarch as an Eparchial Bishop of Sokal–Zhovkva since 21 July 2000. Previously he served as an Eparchial Bishop of

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from 20 April 1993 until 13 November 1996 and the second time from 7 November 1997 until 21 July 2000; and as Titular Bishop of Casae in Pamphylia and Archepiscopal Exarch of Kyiv-Vyshhorod from 13 November 1996 until 7 November 1997.

Life

Bishop Koltun was born in the family of clandestine Greek-Catholics Pavlo and Stanislava (née Kret) Koltun. After graduation of the school education, he graduated the college of industrial automation in Lviv and made a compulsory service in the

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. Then he worked in the concrete products plant from 1972 until 1989. During all this time he was clandestine member of the

Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer The Redemptorists officially named the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer ( la, links=no, Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris), abbreviated CSsR,is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men (priests and brother ...

, where he had a

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in 1975 and a solemn profession on 8 November 1981. Koltun was ordained as

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on 13 December 1981, after completing clandestine theological studies. From 1990 until 1993 he openly served as priest, missionary and founder of the new Greek-Catholic parishes. On 20 April 1993 Fr. Koltun was elected and on 19 September 1993 was

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to the

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as the first Eparchial Bishop of the new created

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. His consecration was the first open one in time, when the "Catacomb Church" became free, after

Dissolution of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...

. The principal

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was Cardinal

Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky ( uk, Мирослав Іван Любачівський; 24 June 1914, Dolyna, Austria-Hungary – 14 December 2000, Lviv, Ukraine), cardinal, was bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia in the ...

, the Head of the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Koltun, Mykhaylo 1949 births Living people Clergy from Lviv Oblast Ukrainian Eastern Catholics Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Redemptorists Redemptorist bishops Eastern Catholic bishops in Ukraine