Plato Wolodyslav Kornyljak

Platon Wolodyslav Kornyljak ( Ukrainian Платон Володислав Корниляк Platon Volodyslav Kornyljak ; born September 6, 1920 in Stebni , Bukovina , Kingdom of Romania ; † November 1, 2000 in Munich ) was from 1959 to 1996 the first Apostolic Exarch for Catholic Ukrainians of Byuszant in Germany and Scandinavia .

He was ordained a priest in 1949 and titular bishop of Castra Martis in 1959 .

Life

Born in 1920 in Stebni in what was then the Kingdom of Romania (this place is now in the Chernivtsi Oblast in Ukraine ) in a farming family. He was ordained a priest on March 25, 1945 by Bishop Ivan Buchko . From 1950 to 1952 he worked as the personal assistant to Archbishop Konstantin Bohachevsky in the United States and from 1952 to 1959 as Chancellor of the Apostolic Exarchate in the United States for the Ukrainians.

On April 17, 1959, he was appointed Apostolic Exarch of the newly created Apostolic Exarchate in Germany and Scandinavia for the Ukrainians by the Holy See (until 1982 only responsible for Germany). On July 7, 1959 he was consecrated to the episcopate. The main consecrator was Archbishop Konstantin Bohatschewski, and the most important co-consecrators were Bishop Ambrosius Senyshyn and Bishop Joseph Michael Schmondiuk in Philadelphia . Bishop Kornyljak retired on December 16, 1996.

In 1960 he took part in the Second Vatican Council as a council father. He died on November 1, 2000 in Munich and was buried there in the Munich forest cemetery.

Web links

• Entry on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
-	Apostolic Exarch for Catholic Ukrainians of the Byzantine Rite in Germany and Scandinavia 1959–1996	Petro Kryk