Hryhoriy Balahurak

Hryhoriy Balahurak, O.S.B.M.
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk (auxiliary)
Church Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Appointed April 1945
Orders
Ordination 21 May 1936 (Priest)
by Bl. Josaphat Kotsylovsky
Consecration April 1945 (Bishop)
by Bl. Hryhoriy Khomyshyn
Personal details
Birth name Volodymyr Balahurak
Born (1909-07-05)5 July 1909
Stanislaviv, Austrian-Hungarian Empire, now Ukraine
Died October 2, 1965(1965-10-02) (aged 56)
Korkino, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Soviet Union, now Russian Federation

Hryhoriy Volodymyr Balahurak, O.S.B.M. (Ukrainian: Григорій Володимир Балагурак; 5 July 1909 – 2 October 1965) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic clandestine hierarch. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk from 1945 to 1965.

Born in Stanislaviv, Austrian-Hungarian Empire (present-day – Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine) in 1909 and in 1925 joined the religious Order of Saint Basil the Great.[1] He was professed on 1 May 1927, solemn professed on 16 December 1934 and was ordained a priest on 21 May 1936 by Blessed Bishop Josaphat Kotsylovsky. After ordination he served a short time in the monastery in his native Stanislaviv and then, from 1938, as parish priest in Krystynopol. From 1941 until 1945 Fr. Hryhoriy was a superior in the monastery in Stanislaviv.[1] He was arrested, because the Communist regime abolished the Greek-Catholic Church, and exiled in Siberia in October 1949. Released in 1955, but the second time arrested in 1957 and imprisoned until his death.[1]

In April 1945 Fr. Balahurak was consecrated to the Episcopate as auxiliary bishop. The principal and single consecrator was Blessed Bishop Hryhoriy Khomyshyn, who a short time later was arrested and imprisoned by Communists.[2]

He died in exile on 2 October 1965.

References

  1. 1 2 3 ЄПИСКОП – СТРАДНИК (in Ukrainian). Official Site of the Hutsylskyi Kray newspaper. 2016-12-01.
  2. ↑ Bishop Grygory Balahurak, O.S.B.M.. catholic-hierarchy.org. 2016-12-01.


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