Ivan Ljavinec (18 April 1923 – 9 December 2012) was a
Czech
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hierarch
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of the
Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church
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.
Ljavinec was born in
Volovec,
Czechoslovakia
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(now in Ukraine) and ordained a priest on 28 July 1946. Ljavinec was appointed titular bishop of
Acalissus
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as well as
Apostolic Exarch
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of the
on 18 January 1996 and consecrated a bishop on 30 March 1996. Ljavinec retired as apostolic exarch on 23 April 2003.
He lived as the Apostolic Exarch emeritus in the House of St. Elżbeta in
Žernůvka,
Czech Republic
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, where died. His body was transferred in Ukraine and, on 15 December 2012, buried in his native Volovec.
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1923 births
2012 deaths
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