Teodor Majkowicz

Teodor Majkowicz
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Wrocław-Gdańsk
Church Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
In office 12 July 1996 – 9 May 1998
Predecessor New creation
Successor Włodzimierz Juszczak
Orders
Ordination 24 June 1956 (Priest)
by Marian Jankowski
Consecration 12 July 1996 (Bishop)
by Myroslav Marusyn
Personal details
Birth name Teodor Majkowicz
Born (1932-01-06)6 January 1932
Rzepedź, Second Polish Republic
Died 9 May 1998(1998-05-09) (aged 66)
Kraków, Poland

Teodor Majkowicz (6 January 1932 – 9 May 1998) was an Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch in Poland. He was the first Eparchial Bishop of the new created Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Wrocław-Gdańsk bishop from 1996 to 1998.

Born in Rzepedź, Second Polish Republic in the Ukrainian family of Ivan and Mariya Harhaj in 1932 and in 1947, together with family, was forced resettlement after Operation Vistula. He was ordained a priest on 24 June 1956 by Roman Catholic Bishop Marian Jankowski. He worked as Roman Catholic priest, but in 1960th begun to help in the renewed Greek Catholic parishes.[1]

He was appointed by the Holy See an Eparchial Bishop of the new created Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Wrocław-Gdańsk on 24 May 1996. He was consecrated to the Episcopate on 12 July 1996. The principal consecrator was Archbishop Myroslav Marusyn, and the principal co-consecrators were Archbishop Jan Martyniak and Bishop Julian Gbur in Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Przemyśl.[2]

He died on a heart attack in Kraków on 9 May 1998.

References

  1. Blazejowsky, Dmytro (1988). Ukrainian Catholic clergy in diaspora (1751-1988). Rome. p. 143.
  2. Bishop Teodor Majkowicz. catholic-hierarchy.org. 2016-06-13.
Catholic Church titles
New title Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Wrocław-Gdańsk
1996–1998
Succeeded by
Włodzimierz Juszczak


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