Pavlo Wassylyk

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Pavlo Wassylyk ( Ukrainian Павло Василик , Polish Pawlo Wasylyk * 8. August 1926 in Borysławka , Poland ; † 12. December 2004 in Ivano-Frankivsk , Ukraine ) was a bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and led the eparchy Kolomyia-Chernivtsi in Of Ukraine.

Life

Pawlo Wassylyk came from a family in Przemyśl on the Ukrainian-Polish border. The parents cultivated a national Ukrainian consciousness. He was one of eleven children and was raised patriotically . He obtained his higher education entrance qualification at a grammar school in Przemysl and then began to study theology . He has been a member of the Greek Catholic Underground Church in Ukraine since his priestly vocation .

Underground Church

As early as November 1945 he was deported by the Soviet rulers from Poland to the Ukraine in Ternopil . In 1946 he came to Lviv and continued his theology studies in the secret seminary . He was imprisoned for this from 1947 to 1956. During this period of detention, which was originally set for ten years, he was ordained a deacon in 1950 and worked as a secret pastor in the prisons . After he was released from captivity in 1956 , he was ordained a priest on November 18, 1956, Bishop Mykolay Charnetskyi CSsR , who was beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 24, 2001 . In 1959 the young priest was arrested again and sentenced to five years in prison. In 1964 he was banished into exile . Even after 1964 he was constantly persecuted and observed by the KGB . On May 1, 1974, he was ordained bishop by the archbishop's exarch of Central Asia, Bishop Josafat Josyf Fedoryka OSBM . Wassylyk was one of the so-called underground bishops of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine.

Legalization of the Ukrainian Church

Since 1987, Bishop Pavlo Wassylyk has been one of the active spokesmen for the freedom of the Church in Ukraine. He was a member of the commission that submitted a petition to Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow in 1989. Following the legalization of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, Pavlo Vasylyk was appointed titular bishop of Plotinopolis on January 16, 1991 . Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Kolomyia-Chernivtsi on April 20, 1993.

Honors

Seton Hall University ( USA ) awarded him an honorary doctorate in the humanities for his special services to the Church and his tireless commitment to the Ukrainian people . For his further services to the diocese of Kolomyia-Chernivtsi and the reconstruction of the Greek Catholic Church, the Institute for Economics and Law in Ivano-Frankivsk made him an honorary doctor.

Consecrations

Bishop Wassylyk dedicated Mykola Simkaylo , Volodymyr Wijtyschyn and Taras Senkiw OM priests and was Mitkonsekrator at Volodymyr Wijtyschyn Bishop of Kolomyia-Chernivtsi

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vatican publishes book about martyrs of the East in the 20th century ( online )
  2. ^ Greek Catholic Bishop, Underground Activist, Passes to Eternity, in: NÖK - Nachrichtenendienst Ostliche Kirchen ( Online ( Memento from December 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ))
predecessor Office successor
--- Bishop of Kolomyia-Chernivtsi
1993-2004 		Volodymyr Viyyshyn
personal data
SURNAME Wassylyk, Pavlo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Василик, Павло (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian clergyman, Bishop of Kolomyia-Chernivtsi
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Borysławka , Poland
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 2004
Place of death Ivano-Frankivsk , Ukraine