Former Ukrainian Apostolic Exarchate of

Volhynia, Polesia and Pidliashia

Ukraine Ukraine, Germany Germany

Continent: East Europe

Rite: Ukrainian (Byzantine)

Type: Apostolic Exarchate Apostolic Exarchate

Name: Volhynia, Polesia and Pidliashia (English) / Wolhynien, Polissia und Pidliashia (Deutsch)

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History

Past Ordinaries

Apostolic Exarchs of Volhynia, Polesia and Pidliashia (Ukrainian Rite)

Blessed Bishop Mykolai Charnets’kyi (Миколай Чарнецький), C.SS.R.
(1939 – 1944)

Born:1884.12.14 (Semakivtsi, Ukraine)
Ordained Priest:1909.10.02
Consecrated Bishop:1931.02.02
Died:1959.04.02 🩸 (Ukraine † 74)
Beatified:2001.06.27 (Lviv, Ukraine)
Feast:04.02

Titular Bishop of Lebedus (1931.01.16 – 1959.04.02)

Apostolic Exarch of Volhynia, Polesia and Pidliashia of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (1939 – 1944)

Apostolic Administrator of Belarus of the Belarussians (Belarus) (1939.09.17 – 1940.08)

Bishop and religious of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists). Martyr.

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