Bishop Stepan Meniok, C.Ss.R. ( uk, Степан Меньок; born 19 August 1949 in Nakonechne,

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) is a

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hierarch, who serves as an Archiepiscopal Exarch of Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk and a Titular Bishop of

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since 11 January 2002. Coat of arms of Stephan Meniok

Life

Bishop Meniok was born in the family of clandestine Greek-Catholics Petro Meniok. After graduation of the school education, he graduated the technical college #1 in Lviv and made a compulsory service in the

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during 1969–1971. After this time he became a clandestine member of the

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, where he had a

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on 8 November 1975 and a solemn profession on 8 October 1981. Meniok was ordained as

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on 8 July 1984, after completed clandestine theological studies and worked as pastor among the faithful of the "Catacomb Church" in

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and Kamianobrid until 1990. From 1990 he openly served as priest, missionary and founder of the new Greek-Catholic parishes after the

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. During 1994–1998 he was a Rector of the Theological Seminary in Lviv and after, during 1998–2002 as a Rector of the Ukrainian Redemptorists province Theological Seminary. On 11 January 2002 Fr. Meniok was appointed and on 15 February 2002 was

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to the

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as the first Archiepiscopal Exarch of the new created Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk-Kharkiv. The principal

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was Cardinal

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, the Head of the

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References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Meniok, Stepan 1949 births Living people People from Lviv Oblast Ukrainian Eastern Catholics Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Redemptorists Redemptorist bishops 21st-century Eastern Catholic bishops