Athanasius Pekar

Vasily Atanasi "Athanasius Basil" Pekar (Ukrainian: Атанасій Пекар) OSBM (1 Mar 1922 – 28 Sep 2011) was a notable American Ukrainian Catholic priest, author, and academic born in Perechyn, Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpatska, now in Ukraine. Pekar was a hieromonk member of the faculty at Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; he was an editor of and contributor to the periodical Byzantine Catholic World. He was ordained in 1946 and completed studies at the Pontifical Urban University (B.Ph. 1942, Dr.Th. 1947) followed by a BaccHe in 1948 at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He was a member of the Order of Saint Basil the Great, also known as the Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat; he served as pastor of churches in western Pennsylvania including St. John the Baptist Greek Catholic Church in Uniontown. He died in Glen Cove, Nassau County, New York.

Pekar was a member of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences (UVAN) formed by Ukrainian émigré scholars in Augsburg, Germany, as an academy in exile; the Shevchenko Scientific Society, and the faculty of the Ukrainian Catholic University.

On 1 March 2018, Uzhhorod National University held a symposium on Pekar's life and writings entitled "A Life Dedicated to Truth: Hieromonk Athanasius Vasyl Pekar, OSBM" (Життя присвячене Правді: ієромонах Атанасій Василь Пекар).