Ivan Buchko or Bučko (; 1 October 1891 – 21 September 1974) was a

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hierarch in present-day Ukraine, United States and Italy. He was the auxiliary bishop of the

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from 1929 to 1940, the auxiliary bishop of the Apostolic Exarchat in the United States for the Ukrainians from 1940 to 1945 and the first Apostolic Visitator for the Ukrainians in the Western Europe from 1945 to 1971. From 20 October 1929 as titular bishop of Cadi and from 27 April 1953 as titular archbishop of Leucas.

Biography

Born in Hermaniv,

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(present day – Tarasivka,

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) in the Ukrainian peasant family of Hryhoriy, who was a church cantor, and Horpyna in 1891. He was

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on 21 February 1915 by Bishop Lazar Mladenov for the

. He worked as a rector of the Greek-Catholic minor seminary in

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from 1922 to 1929. He was appointed by the

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as auxiliary bishop of the

on 16 September 1929. He was

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to the

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on 20 October 1929 in the church of

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. The principal

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was Metropolitan

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, and the principal co-consecrators were Blessed Bishop

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and Blessed Bishop Josaphat Kotsylovsky. He was an Apostolic Visitator for the Ukrainians in Argentina and Brazil from 1939 to 1940 and for the Ukrainians in the Western Europe from 1945 to 1971. At the end of the Second World War, Buchko organized the escape of the entire Waffen-SS Galitsia Division to South and North America. Also with his blessing were hiding in the

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from the Nazi persecution some members of the

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. Archbishop Buchko retired on 29 September 1971. He participated in the

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as a Council Father in the 1960s. He died in

on 21 September 1974.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Buchko, Ivan 1891 births 1974 deaths Clergy from Lviv Oblast People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians 20th-century Eastern Catholic bishops Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Ukrainian anti-communists Ukrainian emigrants to Italy Ukrainian diaspora in Italy Participants in the Second Vatican Council