Yakiv Tymchuk

Yakiv Tymchuk, O.S.B.M.
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk (auxiliary)
Church	Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Appointed	1977
Orders
Ordination	3 January 1943 (Priest) by Bl. Hryhorij Lakota
Consecration	1977 (Bishop) by Sofron Dmyterko
Personal details
Born	Yaroslav Hryhorovych Tymchuk (1919-08-24)24 August 1919 Duplyska, Second Polish Republic, now Ukraine
Died	20 December 1988(1988-12-20) (aged 69) Chortkiv, Soviet Union, now Ukraine

Yakiv Yaroslav Tymchuk, O.S.B.M. (Ukrainian: Яків Ярослав Тимчук; 24 August 1919 – 20 December 1988) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic clandestine hierarch. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk from 1977 to 1988.

Life

Born in Duplyska, Second Polish Republic (present-day – Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine) in 1919 and in 1934 joined the religious Order of Saint Basil the Great.[1] He was professed on 31 March 1936, solemn professed on 27 September 1942 and was ordained a priest on 3 January 1943 by Blessed Bishop Hryhorij Lakota. After ordination he served a short time in the monastery in Hoshiv and then as parish priest in Chortkiv.[1] He was arrested, because the Communist regime abolished the Greek-Catholic Church, but after short time released from prison and clandestinely continued to serve as priest.[1]

On 1977 Fr. Tymchuk was consecrated to the Episcopate as auxiliary bishop. The principal and single consecrator was clandestine bishop Sofron Dmyterko.[2]

He died on 20 December 1988.

References

1. Iсповiдик вiри (in Ukrainian). Official Site of the Eparchy of Buchach. 2016-11-27.
2. "Bishop Yakiv Yaroslav Tymchuk, O.S.B.M." catholic-hierarchy.org. 2016-11-27.