New bishop consecrated in Poland

PARSIPPANY, N.J. - The Rev. Wolodymyr Roman Juszczak, OSBM, provincial superior of the Order of St. Basil the Great in Poland, was appointed on April 24 by Pope John Paul II as bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Wroclaw-Gdansk, Poland. He was ordained bishop on June 19 in St. James Cathedral, Gdansk. The main consecrator was Archbishop-Metropolitan Ivan Martyniak.

Bishop Juszczak was born on July 19, 1957, in the town of Legnica. At age 25 he was ordained a priest and entered the Order of St. Basil the Great. He holds a degree in canon law from the Theological Academy of Warsaw. He served as curate in Wegorzewo and Olsztyn, and later was novice master in Warsaw.

In 1993 the Rev. Juszczak was appointed parish priest of Wegorzewo. He was elected provincial one year later, and at the time of his appointment was a parish priest in Warsaw.

Poland has a large community of 120,000 Ukrainian Catholics. In the Eparchy of Wroclaw-Gdansk there are 53,000 Ukrainian Catholics, 32 eparchial priests and 14 religious priests.

The eparchy was established on May 24, 1996, under the leadership of Bishop Theodore Majkowicz, former vicar general, chancellor of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Peremyshl and one-time supervisor of Ukrainian students at the Catholic University of Lublin.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, July 25, 1999, No. 30, Vol. LXVII

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