Markijan Trofimiak

Marcjan Trofimiak ( born April 16, 1947 in Kosowa ) is a Ukrainian priest and Bishop of Lutsk.

Life

The Apostolic Administrator of Riga, Julijans Cardinal Vaivods, ordained him a priest on 26 May 1974. Pope John Paul II appointed him on 16 January 1991 Titular Bishop of Auzia and Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv.

He received his episcopal consecration of the Archbishop of Lviv, Marian Jaworski, on 2 March of the same year; Co-consecrators were Stanisław Nowak, Bishop of Czestochowa, and Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, Apostolic Administrator of European Russia.

As a motto he chose by Christ, cum Christo et in Christo. On March 25, 1998, he was appointed bishop of Lutsk. From his office he resigned on 24 July 2012.