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Venedykt Aleksiychuk | |
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Eparch of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Chicago | |
Church | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
Metropolis | Philadelphia |
Diocese | Chicago |
Appointed | April 20, 2017 |
Installed | June 29, 2017 |
Predecessor | Richard Seminack |
Orders | |
Ordination | 29 Mar 1992 by Myroslav Lubachivsky |
Consecration | 5 Sep 2010 by Ihor Vozniak, Yulian Voronovskyi and Paul Chomnycky |
Personal details | |
Born | Valeriy Dmytrovych Aleksiychuk 16 January 1968 Borshchivka, Ukrainian SSR |
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Motto | Возлюбимъ другъ друга |
Styles of Venedykt Aleksiychuk | |
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Reference style | |
Spoken style | His Grace |
Religious style | Bishop |
Bishop Venedykt (Aleksiychuk), bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Chicago (born January 16, 1968, in Borshchivka, Kostopil Raion, Rivne Oblast, Ukrainian SSR). Became auxiliary bishop of Lviv on September 5, 2010; became bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Chicago on June 29, 2017.
2004-’10 – Served as a member of the Patriarchal Commission of Monasticism.
2006 – Served as administrator of St. Nicholas parish in Peremyshlyany.
2006-’08 – Served as the Head of the Secretariat of UGCC Council of Monasticism.
2007-’09 – Headed the UGCC Liturgical Council on preparing texts of divine services.
2007-’10 – Served as the Head of the Council of Higher Superiors of Monasteries of the UGCC.
2009 – Appointed a member of the Secretariat of the Patriarchal Sobor, which was held in Brazil in 2011.
2008-’10 – He completed a course of Practical Psychology at the European School of Correspondential Education (Kharkiv).
2009-’10 – Studied “Propaedeutics of mental disorders” at the Ukrainian Community of Psychiatrists.
2009-’12 – Studied pedagogy and psychology at the Ignatianum Academy in Krakow (Poland).
On August 3, 2010, Lyubomyr Husar, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Galicia, by general consent of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC, appointed hieromonk Venedykt Aleksiychuk bishop-auxiliary of Lviv Archeparchy. [1] His episcopal chirotonia (ordination) was held on September 5, 2010, at St. George's Cathedral in Lviv (the main consecrator – Archbishop Ihor Voznyak, Metropolitan of Lviv, co-consecrators: Bishop of Sambir-Drohobych Yulian Voronovskyi and Bishop of Stamford Pavlo Chomytskyi).
A Superior as A Spiritual Father - 2009
Spiritual Instructions - 2010
Be Saints - 2011
Borshchivka – A Pearl of Polesia - 2013
Reflections on The Liturgical Reading of Gospel - 2015
Reflections on The Liturgical Reading of the Apostles – 2015
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