Mychajło Kołtun

Mychajło Kołtun CSsR , Ukrainian Михайло Колтун , (born March 29, 1949 in Nakonechne ) is Bishop of Sokal-Schowkwa .

Life

Mykhaylo Kołtun joined the Congregation of the Redemptorists in and Weiherzbischof in Lviv , Volodymyr Sterniuk CSsR, ordained him on 13 December 1981 for the priest . Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Zboriv on April 20, 1993 .

The Archbishop of Lemberg , Myroslaw Ivan Cardinal Lyubachivskyi , consecrated him on September 19 of the same year as bishop ; Co- consecrators were Volodymyr Sternjuk CSsR, auxiliary bishop in Lviv, and Sofron Dmyterko OSBM , bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk .

On November 13, 1996, he became Archbishop Exarch of Kyiv-Vyshhorod and Titular Bishop of Casae in Pamphylia . appointed. On July 21, 2000 he was appointed Bishop of Sokal .

Military bishop

Mychajło Kołtun has been military bishop since October 3, 2006 and heads the department for military and prison chaplaincy in the Patriarchal Curia of the Grand Archbishopric of Kiev-Halych . In recognition of his work as military bishop and in connection with his 60th birthday, he was awarded the medal “For the Advancement of the Military of Ukraine” on March 23, 2009 by the Deputy Defense Minister Volodymyr Dibrova.

Web links

• Entry on Mychajło Kołtun on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ Military and prison chaplaincy. ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Bishop Mychail Koltun was awarded a medal “For the Promotion of the Military in Ukraine”. ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release UGKK, March 29, 2009.