Volodymyr Malanczuk,

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( uk, Володимир Маланчук; 20 August 1904 – 29 September 1990) was a

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hierarch in France. He was the first Apostolic Exarch of the new created Apostolic Exarchat of France as titular bishop of Epiphania in Syria from 1960 to 1982.

Biography

Born in Bazar,

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(present day – Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine) in the Ukrainian peasant family in 1904. He professed as Redemptorist on 21 September 1925 and was ordained a priest on 26 April 1931 by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. He worked as Vicar General for the Ukrainians in the United Kingdom from 1949 to 1951 and as Provincial Superior of the Ukrainian Redemptorists in Canada from 1951 to 1961. He was appointed by the Holy See an Apostolic Exarch of the new created Apostolic Exarchat of France for the Ukrainians on 22 July 1960. He was

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to the Episcopate on 19 February 1961. The principal consecrator was Archbishop

Maxim Hermaniuk Maxim Hermaniuk (30 October 1911 – 3 May 1996) was the Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop of Winnipeg. Born in Nove Selo near Horodok in western Ukraine, he was ordained a Priest of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer in 1938. In 1956, he wa ...

, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop

Ambrose Senyshyn Ambrose Senyshyn, O.S.B.M, D.D. (February 23, 1903 - September 11, 1976), born in Staryi Sambir, Ukraine, was an Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. On July 10, 1958, he was appointed the first Bishop of Stamford. On August 14, 1961, he ...

and Bishop

Isidore Borecky Bishop Isidore Borecky ( uk, Ісидор Ілярій Борецький; 1 October 1911 in Ostrivets, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present day in Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine) – 23 July 2003 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was a Ukrainian- ...

in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Bishop Malanczuk retired on 27 November 1982. He participated in the Second Vatican Council as a Council Father in 1960th. He died in Winnipeg on 29 September 1990.

References

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