Brian Kolodiejchuk,
MC is a Canadian Catholic priest who served as the advocate for
Mother Teresa
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, ; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic Church, Roman Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of ...
of Calcutta in the cause for her
canonization
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, and director of the Mother Teresa Center.
He edited and wrote the commentary for the book ''Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light'', published by
Doubleday
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, on September 4, 2007.
Biography
Career
Father Kolodiejchuk's 20-year association with Mother Teresa began in 1977 when he joined a new group of contemplative brothers she was then starting. He later joined the priestly branch of Mother Teresa's religious family, the Missionaries of Charity Fathers, at the time of their foundation in 1984.
He was ordained to the priesthood in June 1985 in the Ukrainian Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist in
Newark, New Jersey
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, USA, by the late Metropolitan-Archbishop of Winnipeg, Maxim Hermaniuk, C.Ss.R. In March 1999 he served as Mother Teresa's advocate in advancing the cause of her beatification and canonization. He was appointed director of the Mother Teresa Center.
Books
*''Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light'' (editor), Doubleday, 2007
References
External links
Mother Teresa Center
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20th-century Canadian Roman Catholic priests
Clergy from Winnipeg
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Canadian Roman Catholic priests