Jossyf Miljan

Jossyf Miljan

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Jossyf Miljan MSU ( Ukrainian Йосиф Мілян ; born July 6, 1956 in Dobryany , Lviv Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian auxiliary bishop and protosynkel ( vicar general ) of the Archdiocese of Kiev-Halytsch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church .

Yossyf Miljan was born in Dobryany in Horodok district and was baptized in the name of Ivan. After school and military service, he joined the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which is illegal in the Soviet Union . On January 5, 1976, he received the blessing for the monastic status from Father Julian Voronowskyj , the then abbot of the monastery of the study monks and later bishop of Sambir and Drohobych . On March 8, 1983, he made his perpetual profession and was given the name Jossyf (Joseph).

After studying in the illegal seminary , he was ordained a deacon by Volodymyr Sternjuk on May 9, 1984 and a priest on December 30, 1984. From 1990 he was chaplain in the Cathedral of St. George in Lviv. In 1992 he was appointed waiter of the monastery of St. Joseph in Lviv. From 1992 he completed his theology studies at the Catholic University of Lublin in Poland . In May 1993, Grand Archbishop Myroslaw-Ivan Lyubachivskyi appointed him pastor of youth associations and in February 1997 he became chairman of the Patriarchal Commission for Youth Pastoral Care . From May 1998 the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church sent him to the European Committee for Academic Pastoral Care. On November 1, 2008 he became pastor of the cathedral in Kiev .

On April 16, 2009 he was appointed by the Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and Pope Benedict XVI. appointed auxiliary bishop in Kiev-Halytsch and titular bishop of Drusiliana . He received his episcopal ordination on June 18, 2009 by Jan Martyniak in the Ukrainian Catholic Resurrection Cathedral in Kiev.

Web links

• Entry on Jossyf Miljan on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Reports of the episcopal ordination (English).