Borys Gudziak
Borys Gudziak (24 November 1960 - ) is the Apostolic Exarch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of France since his appointment was announced on 21 July 2012.[1]
Gudziak was born in Syracuse, New York USA). His parents, both Ukrainian Greek Catholics had come to New York from the Lviv region in the early 1950s. After completing his pre-university studies at Christian Brothers Academy, he graduated from Syracuse University, obtaining a dual degree in philosophy and biology in 1980. He entered the College of Saint Sophia in Rome where, as a student of Lviv dell'Arcieparchia, he attended the Pontifical Urban University. In 1983 he graduated in theology and began doctoral studies in an interdepartmental program of Slavic and Byzantine Cultural History at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1992.[2] His thesis, Crisis and Reform: The Kievan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest, was published by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute in 1998.[3]
In 1992, he moved permanently to Lviv where he founded the Institute of Church History (ISC), becoming its Dean until October 2002. In 1993 he was appointed Chairman of the Commission for the Renewal of the Lviv Theological Academy by Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, Major Archbishop of Lviv of the Ukrainians.
From October 1994 until July 1995 he attended the Pontifical Oriental Institute, examining in particular the synthesis of neopatristic Orthodox theologian Georgy Florovskyi. From 1995 until 2012 he served as Vice Chancellor, from 2000 to 2012 he became Rector of the Theological Academy and then rector of the Catholic University in Lviv Ukraine.
He was ordained on 26 November 1998 in the Church of San Giorgio by Eparch Sofron Stefan Mudry, O.S.B.M. and incardinated in the Major Archeparchy of Lviv of the Ukrainians. He is the author of over 50 studies on the history of the Church, theological training and on different topics of cultural relevance.
On 21 July 2012 it was announced that The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation from the pastoral Apostolic Exarchate for Ukrainians faithful of the Byzantine rite resident in France Michel Hrynchyshyn, in accordance with canon. 210 § 1 CCEO. Benedict XVI appointed Apostolic Exarch for Ukrainians faithful of the Byzantine rite resident in France Rev. Boyrs Gudziak, Rector of Ukrainian Catholic University and at the same time appointing him Titular Bishop of Carcabia.
Gudziak will be the 49th member of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Besides France, the Exarchate also includes Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, and Switzerland. [2]
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