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Andrés Sapelak

Andrés Sapelak, S.D.B.
Bishop of Eparchy of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires
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Church Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
See Eparchy of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires
In office 1968 - 1997
Predecessor new creation
Successor Miguel Mykycej
Orders
Ordination June 29, 1949
by Ivan Buchko
Consecration October 15, 1961
by Ivan Buchko
Personal details
Born (1919-12-13) December 13, 1919 (age 97)
Ryszkowa Wola, Second Polish Republic
Previous post Auxiliary Bishop for Ordinariate for Eastern Rites (1961–1968)

Andrés Sapelak, S.D.B. (Ukrainian: Андрій Сапеляк; born December 13, 1919) is an Argentinian hierarch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He is the oldest bishop in this Eastern Catholic Church.

Sapelak was born in Ryszkowa Wola, Second Polish Republic in a Ukrainian family and ordained a priest on June 29, 1949 from the religious order Salesians of Saint John Bosco. He was appointed Auxiliary bishop of Faithful of the Oriental Rites (Argentina) as well as Titular Bishop of Sebastopolis on August 14, 1961 and consecrated on October 15, 1961. On February 9, 1968 Sapelak was appointed bishop of Eparchy of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires where he remained until his retirement on December 12, 1997.

He then returned to Ukraine and worked as parish priest in Verkhnodniprovsk city in the Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk – Kharkiv.

In November 2013, he received Ukrainian citizenship.




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