Ihor Vozniak (born 3 August 1951) is the

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since 2005, succeeding Liubomyr Huzar.

Life

Vozniak was born on 3 August 1951 in Lypytsi, in

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, in the

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of the

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(in present-day

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). He entered the

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in 1973 and was secretly ordained a

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on 23 November 1980. He served in the cathedral of

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from 1989. On 11 January 2002, he was appointed

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and

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. On 17 February 2002, he was consecrated by Cardinal Liubomyr Huzar. When the Major Archeparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church returned from the city of

to the Ukrainian capital of

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in 2004,

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Husar translated to the new see. On 10 November 2005, Ihor Vozniak was elected

of Lviv. He served as the interim administrator of the major archepiscopal see of Kyiv after the resignation of Cardinal Husar until the election of

Sviatoslav Shevchuk Sviatoslav Shevchuk (; born 5 May 1970 in Stryi, Ukrainian SSR) is a Catholic Church in Ukraine, Ukrainian Catholic prelate who has served as the Ukrainian Catholic Major Archeparchy of Kyiv–Galicia, Major Archbishop of Kyiv–Galicia and P ...

in February 2011.

References

1951 births Living people Clergy from Lviv Oblast Ukrainian Eastern Catholics Archbishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Redemptorist bishops {{UkrainianGreekCatholic-bishop-stub