Sviatoslav Shevchuk
Sviatoslav Shevchuk (born 5 May 1970, Ukrainian: Святосла́в Шевчу́к) is the Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church since 25 March 2011.
Life
Sviatoslav Shevchuk was born in Stryi, Ukrainian SSR. He was ordained as a priest on 26 June 1994. From 2002 to 2005 he worked as head of the secretariat of Patriarch Lubomyr Husar. Shevchuk is an alumnus of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas Angelicum where in 1999 he obtained a Doctorate in theology.
Having completed his theological training Shevchuk served as rector of the seminary of Lviv.
On 14 January 2009, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Eparchy of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires and consecrated bishop on 7 April 2009, by Archbishop Ihor Vozniak. On 10 April 2010, he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the same diocese. In addition to Ukrainian and Spanish, he knows Polish, Russian, English, Italian, Greek, Latin and Old Slavonic.
On 23 March 2011, he was elected Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church to replace the retired Lubomyr Husar. This decision was confirmed by Pope Benedict XVI on 25 March 2011. He was enthroned on 27 March 2011. The Major Archbishop of one of Ukraine's Byzantine rite communities and hierarchs of the two others (including UOC-MP) were present for the enthronement in the church's new seat, the Cathedral of the Resurrection.
