WÅ‚odzimierz Juszczak

Włodzimierz novel Juszczak OSBM ( born July 19, 1957 in Legnica, Poland ) is the reigning Bishop of Wroclaw - Gdansk for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

Life

Roman Juszczak was baptized in the Greek-Catholic Church of Legnica. He went into Rosochata, a village in Legnica, to elementary school and attended secondary school in Legnica. In Legnica later Archbishop January Martyniak was parish priest and in charge of the youth. After his graduation he joined in 1976 the Congregation of the Basilian St. Jehoshaphat one. With the drop of the religious profession he chose as a religious name "Vladimir" (Polish: Włodzimierz, after Vladimir I. ). His novitiate went to 1978, he then began the study of philosophy and theology at the seminary in Warsaw and was on 28 May 1983 by Cardinal Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz to the religious priest of the Basilian St. Consecrated Jehoshaphat.

After that he became a priest in a parish in the Warmia - Mazury. 1989 he was appointed Provincial of the Basilian, later Bishop Wassylij Medwit OSBM, the novice master in the Basilian monastery of Warsaw. At the same time he was responsible for originating from Ukraine, Romania and Slovakia seminarians who were allowed to study in Poland after the fall of communism. From 1993 to 1999 Juszczak was responsible for the construction of the Greek Catholic communities in the Warmia and Mazury in Węgorzewo monastery. As Provincial of the Province of the Order of Warmia and Mazury, he also launched a parish of the Greek Catholic Church in Warsaw.

On 24 April 1999, he received from Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop of Wroclaw - Gdansk for Greek- Catholic Church of Ukrainians in Poland. Archbishop of Przemysl -Warsaw January Martyniak and the co-consecrators Bishop Wassylij Medwit OSBM and Bishop Michel Hrynchyshyn CSsR consecrated him as bishop on 19 June 1999.