Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky ( uk, Мирослав Іван Любачівський; 24 June 1914,

Dolyna Dolyna ( uk, Доли́на, pl, Dolina, yi, דאלינע) is a city located in Kalush Raion of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (region) in south-western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Dolyna urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Popul ...

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– 14 December 2000,

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in Western Ukraine, western Ukraine, and the List of cities in Ukraine, seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is o ...

, Ukraine),

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, was bishop of the

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in the United States and from 1984

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of Lviv and head of the

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(UGCC).

Life

He was ordained a priest of the Archeparchy of Lviv in 1938 by Metropolitan

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and then continued his doctoral studies in theology in

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. After

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, he was unable to return to Ukraine and emigrated to the United States, where he continued his pastoral work, first as a priest at St. Peter and Paul Church in

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, Ohio, beginning in 1949, and then from 1968 as a teacher at the St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in Washington. He also taught at St. Basil's College in Philadelphia and St. Basil's Academy in

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before being consecrated archbishop of Philadelphia in 1979. The Ukrainian Holy Synod elected Lubachivsky coadjutor to Cardinal

Josyf Slipyj Josyf Slipyi ( uk, Йосиф Сліпий, born as uk, Йосиф Коберницький-Дичковський, translit=Yosyf Kobernyts'kyy-Dychkovs'kyy; 17 February 1892 – 7 September 1984) was a Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek ...

in 1979. Upon Cardinal Slipyj's death in 1984, he took over as head of the UGCC. In 1985, Pope John Paul II gave him the title of

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of '' S. Sofia a Via Boccea''.

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authorities lifted the ban against the Church in 1989, and Lubachivsky along with other leadership of the UGCC officially returned to Lviv from exile on 30 March 1991. Lubachivsky is buried in St. George's Cathedral in Lviv.

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