Petro Kryk
Petro Kryk (born April 25, 1945 in Kobylnica Wołoska , Poland ) is Apostolic Exarch of the Apostolic Exarchy for Catholic Ukrainians of the Byzantine Rite in Germany and Scandinavia .
biography
Petro Kryk occurred in 1964 in the Seminary of Olsztyn and studied there and later in the seminary of Warsaw theology Catholic . After his ordination as a deacon on June 27, 1971 in Warsaw, he was ordained a priest on August 6, 1971 . Petro Kryk was active in pastoral care for Greek Catholic parishes in Poland. In 1979 he became pastor in Wroclaw , in 1985 dean of Wroclaw-Liegnitz and in 1996 Vicar General of the Eparchy of Wroclaw-Danzig , a diocese of the Ukrainian Catholic Church with a Byzantine rite in Poland.
After the death of the Apostolic Exarch Plato Kornyljak in 2000, Petro Kryk was appointed by Pope John Paul II as his successor and titular bishop of Castra Martis in December of the same year . He received the episcopal ordination on February 3, 2001 in the Cathedral of Mary Protection and St. Andrew of the Exarchy in Munich by Archbishop Jan Martyniak , Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archbishop of the Archeparchy Przemyśl-Warsaw . Co -consecrators were Julian Gbur SVD , Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishop of Stryj and Michel Hrynchyshyn CSsR , Titular Bishop of Zygris and Apostolic Exarch of France .
His motto is: "I opened a door for you."
In the Catholic German Bishops' Conference he is a member of the World Church Commission , the Migration Commission and the Sub-Commission for Central and Eastern Europe (especially RENOVABIS) .
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Plato Wolodyslav Kornyljak |
Apostolic Exarch for Catholic Ukrainians of the Byzantine Rite in Germany and Scandinavia since 2001 |
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| SURNAME | Kryk, Petro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish Apostolic Exarch for Catholic Ukrainians of the Byzantine Rite in Germany and Scandinavia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kobylnica Wołoska , Poland |