Yustyn Boiko ( uk, Юстин Бойко, secular name: Yurii Boiko, uk, Юрій Бойко; born 26 May 1977, Dora,

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вська о́бласть, translit=Ivano-Frankivska oblast), also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вщина), is an administrative divisions of Ukrain ...

) is a Ukrainian religious figure, hieromonk- studite, writer, blogger.

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(2012).

Biography

Yustyn (Yurii) Boiko was born on 26 May 1977 in Dora, which is now part of the city of Yaremche,

. In 1994, he entered the monastery of monks of the Studite Order of the UGCC, where in 1998 he took eternal vows to God. In 2000, he graduated from the

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and the Higher Theological Seminary in Lublin, Poland. On 1 April 2001, he was ordained a priest by His Beatitude Liubomyr Huzar. In 2005, he graduated from the Augustinian Patristic Pontifical Institute of the Pontifical Lateran University; in 2005–2006, he studied for his doctorate there. On 24 May 2012, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the Augustinian Patristic Pontifical Institute on the topic: "La figura di San Clemente Romano nella letteratura agiografica e liturgica manoscritta paleoslava" (supervised by Professor Yakiv Kulich). On 635 pages, Yustyn Boiko has published the most complete collection of Old Slavonic manuscripts (several documents are published for the first time) from the libraries of Ukraine, Greece, Russia, Italy, Croatia, Spain, the United States, and Poland, which are dedicated to Pope Clement IV. The international professors' committee gave the thesis the highest grade of "MAGNUM CUM LAUDE" with a recommendation to publish it in full. Boiko was pastor of the Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Lviv, administrator of the monastery of Saint Theodore Studite "Studion" (Castel Gandolfo, Italy), and prosecutor of the monasteries of the Studite Order at the Holy See. Since 4 January 2018, he has been a synkel for monastic affairs of the

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. Organizer of the annual pilgrimage to the Univ Lavra.

Works

Boiko is the author of 300 articles on moral, ethical, spiritual, social and political topics; about 50 articles are devoted to the righteous Metropolitan Andrei and Blessed Klymentii Sheptytskyi's, the history of Studite monasticism in Ukraine. In 2018, he presented the book ''Conversations with God over Coffee''. In 2019, while processing documents in the Central State Historical Archive (Lviv), he found an unpublished will of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi.

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Boiko, Yustyn 1977 births Living people People from Dora People from Lviv Ukrainian religious leaders Ukrainian Eastern Catholic priests Studite Brethren Ukrainian male writers John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin alumni Doctors of Divinity Liubomyr Huzar