Volodymyr Sternjuk
Volodymyr Sternjuk CSsR (born February 12, 1907 in Pustomyty , Galicia , † September 29, 1997 in Lemberg ) was a Ukrainian clergyman and auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , as well as titular archbishop of Marcianopolis .
Life
Volodymyr Sternjuk completed his theology studies first in Lviv, then in Belgium . After completing his theological studies, he decided to join the Redemptorist order and received the sacrament of priestly ordination in this religious community on September 21, 1931 at the age of almost twenty-five .
Sternyuk witnessed the persecution of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church by the Soviets after the Second World War . As a participant in the “Pseudo Synod of Lviv” he survived an assassination attempt in hiding in March 1946. Thereupon he was sentenced to five years in prison by the communist rulers of the Soviet Union and taken to a Soviet labor camp in Siberia . He returned to Lviv and secretly continued his pastoral activities as a Greek Catholic priest. Professionally, Sternjuk worked as an accountant, paramedic, caretaker and also as a guard.
He was ordained bishop on July 19, 1964 by Bishop Vasyl Velytschkowskyj . Between 1972 and 1991 the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, especially under the party leader of the CPSU Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev , experienced renewed systematic persecution. During this time, Sternjuk was in charge of the pastoral management of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church as the ecclesiastical representative and represented Myroslaw Lyubatschiwskyj .
On January 16, 1991, at the age of just under eighty-four, Volodymyr Sternjuk was appointed auxiliary bishop in Lemberg and titular archbishop of Marcianopolis by Pope John Paul II . In 1996 Sternjuk was relieved of his diocesan leadership duties due to age.
Bishop Volodymyr Sternjuk died on September 29, 1997 at the age of ninety in Lviv.
See also
Web links
- Biography ( Memento from October 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Entry on Volodymyr Sterniuk on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved November 25, 2016.
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| SURNAME | Sternyuk, Volodymyr |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sternjuk, Wolodymyr CSsR (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian clergyman, Greek Catholic auxiliary bishop in Lviv and titular archbishop of Marcianopolis |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pustomyty , Galicia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 29, 1997 |
| Place of death | Lviv , Ukraine |