Michael Rusnak,

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, (21 August 1921 – 16 January 2003) was an American-born member of the

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, commonly known as the Redemptorist Fathers, who was appointed

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of the

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in 1980.

Life

Born in 1921 in

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, Rusnak entered the Redemptorists in 1941 and professed

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as a member of the Congregation on August 2, 1942. He was ordained a priest on July 4, 1949, by

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, who was later declared a martyr and

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by the Catholic Church. On August 25, 1964, he was made was Auxiliary Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Toronto and

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appointed him

of the

on October 13, 1980. On November 11, 1996, the same pope accepted his resignation. Rusnak died on 16 January 2003 at the age of 81.

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Funeral of Kyr Michal Rusnak, CSsR
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