Raimond Turkonjak

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Реймонд Павлович Турконяк
Transl. : Raymond Pavlovyč Turkoniak
Transcr. : Reymond Pavlovych Turkonjak
Raimond Turkonjak, 2013

Rafail (Turkonjak) or Turkonjak Raymond Pawlowytsch (born May 7, 1949 in Manchester , Great Britain ) is a Ukrainian Bible translator and theologian . He is the Archimandrite of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church .

Life

Raymond Turkonjak was born in England in 1949 to Ukrainian parents. His father was a soldier in the UPA . In 1966 he began studying theology at the Pontifical Ukrainian College . At the same time he studied philosophy at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome . In 1968 he graduated with a bachelor's degree in philosophy . He then continued his studies at St Patrick's College in Maynooth ( Ireland ). In 1972 he graduated with a master's degree in theology. He was ordained a priest on April 2, 1972 and between 1972 and 1977 he was pastor of a Ukrainian Greek Catholic parish in Krefeld . In 1975 he was commissioned by the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Yossyf Slipyj, to compose a new translation of the Bible from Church Slavonic into modern Ukrainian. He finished this translation in 2003. For his translation he used the Ostroger Bible (1581). In 2007 he received the Taras Shevchenko Prize for this translation . From 1978 to 1990 he lived in the USA , where he worked as a pastor in various parishes. He has been working in Ukraine since 1991. In 1991 he was appointed Vice Chancellor of the Lviv Archdiocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church by Cardinal Myroslaw Lyubachivskyi . Between 1995 and 1996 he organized the Kiev-Vyshgorod exarchate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Between 1996 and 2000 he was secretary to Cardinal Lyubachivskyys . Since 1992 he has been a member of the Ukrainian Bible Society. He is a doctor of theology , dogmatics (1975) and liturgy (1977). He is professor of theology at the Ostroger Academy .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rafail Turkonjak on the website of the Taras Shevchenko Prize Committee. Retrieved December 1, 2016 (Ukrainian).
  2. ↑ Raymond Turkonjak on the website of Ostroh Academy. Retrieved December 1, 2016 (Ukrainian).
personal data
SURNAME Turkonjak, Raimond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Turkonjak, Raymond Pavlovych (full name); Турконяк, Реймонд Павлович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian theologian and Bible translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester , UK