Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
His Beatitude
Sviatoslav Shevchuk
Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Galicia Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Shevchuk in 2011
Church
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Elected
23 March 2011
Installed
27 March 2011
Predecessor
Lubomyr Husar
Other post(s)
Metropolitan of Kyiv
President of Synod of the Ukrainian Catholic Church
Grand Chancellor of Ukrainian Catholic University
Member of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
Member of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
Orders
Ordination
26 June 1994 by Myroslav Lubachivsky
Consecration
7 April 2009 by Ihor Vozniak
Personal details
Born
(1970-05-05) 5 May 1970 (age 54)
Stryi, Ukrainian SSR
Nationality
Ukrainian
Denomination
Catholic Church
Motto
Church Slavonic: Гдⷭ҇ь просвѣще́нїє моє́ и҆ сп҃си́тель мо́й The LORD is my light and my salvation
Coat of arms
Ordination history
History
Diaconal ordination
Ordained by
Philemon Kurchaba
Date
21 May 1994
Priestly ordination
Ordained by
Ivan Cardinal Lubachivsky
Date
26 June 1994
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator
Ihor Voznyak
Co-consecrators
Miguel Mykycej and Julian Voronovsky
Date
7 April 2009
Episcopal succession
Bishops consecrated by Sviatoslav Shevchuk as principal consecrator
Dmytro Hryhorak
18 September 2011
Borys Andrij Gudziak
26 August 2012
Eugeniusz Mirosław Popowicz
21 December 2013
Mykhaylo Bubniy
7 April 2014
Vasyl Volodymyr Tuchapets
21 May 2014
Bohdan Manyshyn
24 May 2014
Yosafat Moschych
3 August 2014
Hryhoriy Komar
22 August 2014
Bohdan John Danylo
4 November 2014
Teodor Martynyuk
22 May 2015
Volodymyr Hrutsa
7 April 2016
Andriy Rabiy
3 September 2017
Petro Loza
12 July 2018
Ivan Kulyk
1 December 2019
Stepan Sus
12 January 2020
Mykola Bychok
7 June 2020
Arkadiusz Trochanowski
23 January 2021
Michael Smolinski
20 January 2024
Sviatoslav in the Polish Senate
Sviatoslav Shevchuk (Ukrainian: Святосла́в Шевчу́к; born 5 May 1970 in Stryi, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian Catholic prelate who has served as the Major Archbishop of Kyiv–Galicia and Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) since 25 March 2011.
At the time he was born, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was illegal under the Soviet Union. His parents and grandparents were devout Catholics and active in the Underground Church. He recalled that on a family trip to the Orthodox shrine of Pochaev around 1985, he prayed before an icon of the Theotokos, expressing his desire to become a priest. A couple of years later, while studying medicine in the city of Boryslav, he began to attend a secret seminary in Yaremche, in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains.[1]
He completed his mandatory military service as a field medic, based in Eastern Ukraine. In the waning days of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was legalized again, and Shevchuk was able to complete his seminary studies in a reopened seminary in Lviv.[2]
In August 1991, at the direction of his superiors, he moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to study philosophy. He briefly spent time with the Salesian community there. Returning to Ukraine, he was ordained a deacon on May 21, 1994.[2]
^Burger, John (2023). At the Foot of the Cross: Lessons from Ukraine. Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor. pp. 70–71. ISBN 978-1639660278.
^ abBurger, John (2023). At the Foot of the Cross: Lessons from Ukraine. Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor. pp. 79–82. ISBN 978-1639660278.
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