Ihor Vozniak (born 3 August 1951) is the
Archbishop of
Lviv since 2005, succeeding
Liubomyr Huzar.
Life
Vozniak was born on 3 August 1951 in Lypytsi, in
Mykolaiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, in the
Ukrainian SSR of the
Soviet Union
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(in present-day
Ukraine
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).
He entered the
Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer in 1973 and was secretly ordained a
priest in
Vinnytsia on 23 November 1980. He served in the cathedral of
Ternopil from 1989.
On 11 January 2002, he was appointed
Auxiliary Bishop of
Lviv,
Ukraine
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and
Titular Bishop of
Nisa in
Lycia. 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
Lviv to the Ukrainian capital of
Kyiv in 2004,
Major archbishop Husar translated to the new
see. On 10 November 2005, Ihor Vozniak was elected
Archbishop 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 in February 2011.
References
1951 births
Living people
Clergy from Lviv Oblast
Ukrainian Eastern Catholics
Archbishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Redemptorist bishops
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