Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk

Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk, O.F.M.
Diocesan Bishop of
Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia
Church Roman Catholic Church
Appointed 12 April 2014
Predecessor Marian Buczek
Successor Incumbent
Orders
Ordination 4 June 1984 (Priest)
Consecration 6 January 1995 (Bishop)
by Pope John Paul II
Personal details
Birth name Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk
Born (1956-06-23) 23 June 1956
Kornachivka, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR

Bishop Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk, O.F.M. (Ukrainian: Станіслав Широкорадюк; born 23 June 1956 in Kornachivka, Yarmolyntsi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate as the Diocesan Bishop of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia since 12 April 2014. Previously he served as the Titular Bishop of Surista and Auxiliary bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr since 26 November 1994 until 12 April 2014 and as an Apostolic Administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lutsk from 24 July 2012 until 12 April 2014.

Life

Bishop Shyrokoradiuk was born in the Roman-Catholic family in Khmelnytskyi Oblast. After graduation of the school education, he graduated a railway college in Zdolbuniv, made a compulsory service in the Soviet Army (1974–1976) and worked at the plants. In 1980 he subsequently joined the Major Theological Seminary in Riga, Latvia and one year later, he clandestinely joined a Franciscan Order.[1] He was ordained as priest on June 4, 1984,[2] after completed his philosophical and theological study.

After his returning to Ukraine in 1984, Fr. Shyrokoradiuk served as a parish priest in Slavuta and Polonne (1984–1994). In the same time he made clandestinely a solemn profession as Franciscan on August 26, 1988.[1]

On November 26, 1994, he was appointed by the Pope John Paul II as the Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Zhytomyr and Titular Bishop of Surista. On January 6, 1995, he was consecrated as bishop by the same Pope John Paul II and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Єпископ Станіслав ШИРОКОРАДЮК OFM". Official Website of the Conference of the Roman-Catholic Bishops in Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Bishop Stanislav Szyrokoradiuk, O.F.M." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
William Edwin Franklin
Titular Bishop of Surista
1994–2014
Succeeded by
Krzysztof Stefan Włodarczyk
Preceded by
Markijan Trofimiak
Apostolic Administrator
of Roman Catholic Diocese of Lutsk

2012–2014
Succeeded by
Vitaliy Skomarovskyi
Preceded by
Marian Buczek
Diocesan Bishop of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia
2014–present
Succeeded by
Incumbent
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