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Stepan Sus
Other post(s) Parish priest of Sts Peter and Paul Garrison Church in
Lviv (2011–2019)
Order of Merit (3rd class)
Orders
by Ihor Vozniak
by Sviatoslav Shevchuk
Personal details
Lviv, Ukrainian SSR
Nationality Ukrainian
Coat of arms
Life
Bishop Sus was born in family of Yaroslav and Oksana (née Bodnar) Sus in Lviv, but
grew up in the neighbouring village Chyshky in Pustomyty Raion. After graduation of
the school education in Chyshky and the historical-philosophical lyceum run by
the Order of Saint Basil the Great in Buchach, he joined the Theological Seminary in
Lviv, simultaneously studying in the Ukrainian Catholic University (1999–2006).
[1]
After graduation he was ordained as priest on 30 June 2006. [2]
He continued his study in the University of Lviv with magister in the philosophy
degree and in the Catholic University of Lublin with magister in the pastoral theology
degree. During 2006–2011 he worked as a military chaplain in Lviv and from 2011
until his bishop's appointment in 2019 was parish priest in the Saints Peter and Paul
Garrison Church in Lviv.[1]
On 15 November 2019 he was confirmed by Pope Francis as Curial Bishop
of Ukrainian Catholic Major Archeparchy of Kyiv–Galicia, Ukraine and Titular
Bishop of Zygris. He was consecrated as bishop by Major Archbishop Sviatoslav
Shevchuk and other hierarchs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in
the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv on 12 January 2020.[2]
See also
List of youngest living Catholic bishops
References
1. ^ Jump up to:a b "Отець Степан Сус призначений єпископом Курії Верховного
Архиєпископа УГКЦ". Official UGCC Site (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 15 November 2019.
2. ^ Jump up to:a b "Bishop Stepan Sus". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney.
Retrieved 22 September 2020.
Preceded by
Titular Bishop of Zygris Succeeded by
Michel 2019– Incumbent
Hrynchyshyn