Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky (; 24 June 1914 – 14 December 2000),

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, was bishop of the

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in the United States and from 1984

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of Lviv and head of the

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(UGCC).

Life

He was ordained a priest of the Archeparchy of Lviv in 1938 by Metropolitan

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and then continued his doctoral studies in theology in

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. After

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, he was unable to return to Ukraine and emigrated to the United States, where he continued his pastoral work, first as a priest at St. Peter and Paul Church in

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, Ohio, beginning in 1949, and then from 1968 as a teacher at the St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in Washington. He also taught at St. Basil's College in Philadelphia and St. Basil's Academy in

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before being consecrated archbishop of Philadelphia in 1979. The Ukrainian Holy Synod elected Lubachivsky coadjutor to Cardinal

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in 1979. Upon Cardinal Slipyj's death in 1984, he took over as head of the UGCC. In 1985, Pope John Paul II gave him the title of

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of '' S. Sofia a Via Boccea''.

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authorities lifted the ban against the Church in 1989, and Lubachivsky along with other leadership of the UGCC officially returned to Lviv from exile on 30 March 1991. Lubachivsky is buried in St. George's Cathedral in Lviv.

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