Hryhoriy Balahurak
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Hryhoriy Volodymyr Balahurak, O.S.B.M. (Ukrainian: Григорій Володимир Балагурак; 5 July 1909 – 2 October 1965) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic clandestine hierarch. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk from 1945 to 1965.
Life
Born in
Krystynopol. From 1941 until 1945 Fr. Hryhoriy was a superior in the monastery in Stanislaviv.[1] He was arrested, because the Communist regime abolished the Greek-Catholic Church, and exiled in Siberia in October 1949. Released in 1955, but the second time arrested in 1957 and imprisoned until his death.[1]
In April 1945 Fr. Balahurak was
consecrated to the Episcopate as auxiliary bishop. The principal and single consecrator was Blessed Bishop Hryhoriy Khomyshyn, who a short time later was arrested and imprisoned by Communists.[2]
He died in exile on 2 October 1965.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b c ЄПИСКОП – СТРАДНИК (in Ukrainian). Official Site of the Hutsylskyi Kray newspaper. 2016-12-01.
- ^ "Bishop Grygory Balahurak, O.S.B.M." catholic-hierarchy.org. 2016-12-01.
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