Ihor Vozniak

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Ihor Vozniak

Lubomyr Husar
Personal details
Born3 August 1951 (1951-08-03) (age 72)
Lypytsi, Ukraine
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Ihor Vozniak

CSsR (born 3 August 1951) is the Archbishop of Lviv since 2005, succeeding Liubomyr Huzar
.

Life

Vozniak was born on 3 August 1951 in Lypytsi, in

Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (in present-day Ukraine
).

He entered the

priest in Vinnytsia on 23 November 1980. He served in the cathedral of Ternopil
from 1989.

On 11 January 2002, he was appointed

Nisa in Lycia. On 17 February 2002, he was consecrated by Cardinal Liubomyr Huzar. When the Major Archeparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church returned from the city of Lviv to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in 2004, Major archbishop Husar translated to the new see. On 10 November 2005, Ihor Vozniak was elected Archbishop of Lviv.[1]

He served as the interim administrator of the major archepiscopal see of Kyiv after the resignation of Cardinal Husar until the election of Sviatoslav Shevchuk in February 2011.

References

  1. ^ "Archbishop Ihor Voznyak (Vozniak), C.SS.R." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.