Petro Herkulan Malchuk,
O.F.M. ( uk, Петро Геркулан Мальчук; ''pol. Piotr Malczuk'' 7 July 1965 – 27 May 2016) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of
Kyiv-Zhytomyr.
Life
Malchuk was born in
Slobozia-Rașcov in the
Moldovan SSR
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into a
Polish
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* Poles
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family.
He began studies at the Seminary of
Riga
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in 1986.
On 7 June 1992 Petro Herkulan Malchuk was ordained a priest by Jan Olszanski MIC, Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi. In 1993 he made the Franciscan order profession.
Pope Benedict XVI in 2008 appointed him titular bishop of media, and as auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Southeast Ukrainian Odessa-Simferopol. The episcopal ordination took place on 3 May 2008, with Cardinal
Marian Jaworski
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, Archbishop of Lviv; and Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine and Bronislaw Bernacki, Bishop of Odessa-Simferopol as co-consecrators.
On 15 June 2011 he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI with a personal title of Archbishop ("personal capacity") to the pastors of the Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr. The inauguration at the St. Alexander's Cathedral (Kiev) was the first since 1680 in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev itself; Malchuk is also the first pastor of the diocese, and holds the title of an archbishop.
He died on 27 May 2016 of a suspected heart attack in
Grodno
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while participating in the Eucharistic Congress.
Archbishop Petro Herkulan Malchuk, O.F.M. †
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Notes
First inauguration of a bishop in Kyiv since 1680", Domradio, 5 August 2011
See also
References
External links
* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmalchuk.html
* http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/kyiv2.htm#23941
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1965 births
2016 deaths
People from Camenca District
Transnistrian people of Polish descent
Ukrainian people of Polish descent
Roman Catholic bishops of Kyiv
Ukrainian Friars Minor