Petro Herkulan Malchuk

Petro Herkulan Maltschuk, OFM (Мальчук Петро Геркуліан Ukrainian, born July 7, 1965 in Slobozia-Raşcov, Moldova) is the current Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kyiv-Zhytomyr.

Life

Petro Herkulan Malchuk received on June 7, 1992, ordained priest by Jan Olszanski MIC, Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, and entered the Congregation in the Franciscan. In 1993 he passed the profession. Pope Benedict XVI in 2008 appointed him titular bishop of media, and ordered him to auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Southeast Ukrainian Odessa-Simferopol. The episcopal ordination gave on May 3, 2008, being Cardinal Marian Jaworski, Archbishop of Lviv and Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine and Bronislaw Bernacki, Bishop of Odessa-Simferopol were co-consecrators. On June 15, 2011 he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI with a personal title of Archbishop ("personal capacity") to the pastors of the Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr. The inauguration of the St. Alexander's Cathedral (Kiev) was the first since 1680 in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev itself; Malchuk is also the first pastor of the diocese, who holds the title of an archbishop.

Notes

First inauguration of a bishop in Kyiv since 1680", Domradio, 5 August 2011

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