Wenedykt Aleksijchuk

Auxiliary Bishop Wenedykt Aleksijchuk

coat of arms

Wenedykt (Valery) Aleksijtschuk MSU ( Ukrainian Венедикт (Валерій) Алексійчук * 16th January 1968 in Borschtschiwka , Ukrainian SSR ) is called with religious name Venedykt (German: Benedict ) and Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishop of Chicago .

Life

As a child and adolescent, Wenedykt Aleksijtschuk only experienced the church underground. His mother, a teacher, occasionally took him to church. Since church visits had a negative effect on his professional career, he also had no intensive contact with the Christian faith. Following school attendance and military service , Wenedykt worked in nursing . After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the new national beginning of Ukraine, he returned to the Church. He contacted the theological seminary in Lviv and began studying theology .

On October 9, 1991 Philemon Kurchaba CSsR , the auxiliary bishop in Lviv, consecrated him as a deacon . He was ordained a priest on March 29, 1992 by Cardinal Myroslaw Ivan Lyubachivskyi . Since 1992 he has been working as a pastor in Bystrytsya, a village in western Ukraine . In 1993 he entered the religious order of the Student Order and took his religious vows on December 31, 1995 . His order sent him, who had chosen the name Benedict as a religious priest , to eastern Ukraine . The leadership of the order commissioned Father Benedikt with a missionary work to Polatsk in Belarus . He could converse in Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian and also preached in these languages. The Belarusian authorities observed the young priest monk with critical and suspicious eyes. This led to a conflict with the government. Father Benedict was sent to Canada to oversee a congregation. On April 17, 1999 he was elected to the Hegumen of the Studitenkloster in Uniw , in 2005 he was confirmed in his office.

On July 14, 2010, the Synod of Bishops of the Greek Catholic Church of the Ukrainians elected him auxiliary bishop in Lviv. This election was on August 3, 2010, with the simultaneous appointment as titular bishop of Germaniciana , by Pope Benedict XVI. approved. He was born on 5 September 2010 by Archbishop Ihor Wosnjak CSsR (Lemberg) and the co-consecrators Julian Voronovsky MSU (auxiliary bishop in Lviv) and Paul Patrick Chomnycky OSBM (Bishop of Stamford , USA consecrated) bishop.

Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of the Eparchy Saint Nicolas of Chicago on April 20, 2017 . The inauguration in Chicago took place on June 29 of the same year.

See also

• List of auxiliary bishops in Lviv

Web links

• Apostolic Succession Appointments 2010
• Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv visited Mainz
• A Church on the move Greek Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv visits CHURCH IN EMERGENCY (with curriculum vitae)
• Entry on gcatholic.org (English)
• Entry on Wenedykt Aleksijtschuk on catholic-hierarchy.org
• New Bishop of UGCC Ordained in Lviv (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ VATICAN BULLETIN (August 13, 2010 / Number 32/33): Oriental Churches ( PDF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice . )  
2. ↑ nouns del Vescovo dell'Eparchia di Saint Nicholas of Chicago degli Ucraini (USA). In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , April 20, 2017, accessed April 20, 2017 (Italian).