Włodzimierz Juszczak

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Włodzimierz Juszczak
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Włodzimierz Roman Juszczak OSBM (born July 19, 1957 in Legnica , Poland ) is the incumbent bishop of Wroclaw-Danzig for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church .

Life

Roman Juszczak was baptized in the Greek Catholic Church in Legnica. He went to primary school in Rosochata , a village near Legnica, and attended secondary school in Legnica . In Legnica, the future Archbishop Jan Martyniak was parish priest and looked after the young people. After graduating from high school in 1976, he joined the religious order of the Basilians of St. Josaphat a. With the taking of the religious vows he chose "Vladimir" (Polish: Włodzimierz , after Vladimir I ) as the religious name . His novitiate went to 1978, he began the study of philosophy and theology at the seminary in Warsaw and was on 28 May 1983 by Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz for religious priests of the Basilian of Sts. Consecrated to Jehoshaphat.

He then became a priest in a parish in Warmia-Masuria . In 1989 the Provincial of the Basilians, later Bishop Vasylij Medwit OSBM, appointed him as novice master in the Basilian monastery in Warsaw. At the same time, he looked after the seminarians from Ukraine , Romania and Slovakia who were allowed to study in Poland after the fall of communism . From 1993 to 1999 Juszczak was responsible for the development of the Greek Catholic parishes in Warmia-Masuria in the Węgorzewo Monastery . As Provincial for the Order of Warmia-Masuria, he also headed a parish of the Greek Catholic Church in Warsaw.

On April 24, 1999, he was appointed Bishop of Wroclaw-Danzig for the Greek Catholic Church of Ukrainians in Poland from Pope John Paul II . Archbishop Jan Martyniak of Przemysl-Warsaw and the co-consecrators Bishop Wassylij Medwit OSBM and Bishop Michel Hrynchyshyn CSsR initiated him on 19 June 1999 to the bishop.

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