Sofron Stefan Mudry, O.S.B.M (27 November 1923 – 31 October 2014) was a Ukrainian

Bishop A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...

of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. Sofron Stefan Mudry was born in Zolochiv, Poland, was ordained a priest in the Religious

Order of Saint Basil the Great The Order of Saint Basil the Great (; , abbreviated OSBM), also known as the Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat, is a Greek Catholic monastic order of pontifical right that works actively among Ukrainian Catholics and other Greek-Catholic churc ...

on 25 December 1958. He was elected the

Coadjutor bishop A coadjutor bishop (or bishop coadjutor) ("co-assister" in Latin) is a bishop in the Latin Catholic, Anglican and (historically) Eastern Orthodox churches whose main role is to assist the diocesan bishop in administering the diocese. The coa ...

to the

Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk The Archparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk (or Ivano-Frankivsk of the Ukrainians) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or archeparchy of the Catholic Church in Ukraine. It was erected in 2011. It is the metropolitan of an eccles ...

on 2 March 1996 and ordained a bishop on 12 May 1996. Elected bishop to the

on 7 November 1997 and would remain in the post until his retirement on 2 June 2005.

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20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ukraine Order of Saint Basil the Great Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church 1923 births 2014 deaths People from Zolochiv, Lviv Oblast People from Tarnopol Voivodeship Pontifical Oriental Institute alumni Bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk {{UkrainianGreekCatholic-bishop-stub

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