Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky ( uk, Мирослав Іван Любачівський; 24 June 1914,
Dolyna
Dolyna ( uk, Доли́на, pl, Dolina, yi, דאלינע) is a city located in Kalush Raion of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (region) in south-western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Dolyna urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Popul ...
,
Austria-Hungary
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– 14 December 2000,
Lviv
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, Ukraine),
cardinal
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**''Cardinalis'', genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae
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, was bishop of the
Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia
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in the United States and from 1984
major archbishop
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of Lviv and head of the
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
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(UGCC).
Life
He was ordained a priest of the Archeparchy of Lviv in 1938 by Metropolitan
Andrey Sheptytsky
Andrey Sheptytsky, OSBM (; uk, Митрополит Андрей Шептицький; 29 July 1865 – 1 November 1944) was the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1901 until his death in 1944. His tenure spann ...
and then continued his doctoral studies in theology in
Austria
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. After
World War II
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, he was unable to return to Ukraine and emigrated to the United States, where he continued his pastoral work, first as a priest at St. Peter and Paul Church in
Cleveland
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, Ohio, beginning in 1949, and then from 1968 as a teacher at the St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in Washington. He also taught at St. Basil's College in Philadelphia and St. Basil's Academy in
Stamford, Connecticut
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before being consecrated archbishop of Philadelphia in 1979.
The Ukrainian Holy Synod elected Lubachivsky coadjutor to Cardinal
Josyf Slipyj
Josyf Slipyi ( uk, Йосиф Сліпий, born as uk, Йосиф Коберницький-Дичковський, translit=Yosyf Kobernyts'kyy-Dychkovs'kyy; 17 February 1892 – 7 September 1984) was a Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek ...
in 1979. Upon Cardinal Slipyj's death in 1984, he took over as head of the UGCC. In 1985, Pope John Paul II gave him the title of
Cardinal Priest
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of ''
S. Sofia a Via Boccea''.
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Soviet
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authorities lifted the ban against the Church in 1989, and Lubachivsky along with other leadership of the UGCC officially returned to Lviv from exile on 30 March 1991.
Lubachivsky is buried in
St. George's Cathedral in Lviv.
Notes
External links
Myroslav Ivan Cardinal Lubachivsky bio
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1914 births
2000 deaths
People from Dolyna
People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians
University of Innsbruck alumni
Ukrainian cardinals
Leaders of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Bishops in Pennsylvania
Eastern Catholic bishops in the United States
Burials at St. George's Cathedral, Lviv
Cardinals created by Pope John Paul II
Pontifical Biblical Institute alumni
Ukrainian Eastern Catholics
Eastern Catholic bishops in Ukraine
Eastern Catholic archeparchs in North America