Bishop Peter Stasiuk, C.Ss.R. ( uk, Петро Стасюк; born 16 July 1943 in

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) is an Australian Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch. He served as the second Eparchial Bishop of

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from 16 December 1992 until 15 January 2020.

Life

Bishop Stasiuk was born to a family of ethnic Ukrainian Greek-Catholics in Canada. After attending the Eastern Redemptorists' minor seminary, he joined the

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in 1960, where he made his

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on 28 August 1962 and his solemn profession on 28 August 1965. Stasiuk was ordained as a

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on 2 July 1967, after studies at the

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in Ottawa, Canada. Then he continued his studies in another Canadian university,

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and in France in the

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in Tours. After returning from studies, he had various pastoral assignments and served as parish assistant, professor, superior and director at the Redemptorist Institutes in Canada. On 16 December 1992 Fr. Stasiuk was nominated by Pope

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and on 9 March 1993 consecrated to the

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as the second eparchial bishop of the

. The principal

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was Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk, the retired head of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg.

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