About Ivan Ljavinec
Lived 1923 – 2012 (aged 89). Ivan Ljavinec was a Czech catholic priest, poet and catholic bishop.
Ivan Ljavinec (18 April 1923 – 9 December 2012) was a Czech hierarch of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church.
Ljavinec was born in Volovec, Czechoslovakia (now in Ukraine) and ordained a priest on 28 July 1946. Ljavinec was appointed titular bishop of Acalissus as well as Apostolic Exarch of the Apostolic Exarchate of the Greek Catholic Church in the Czech Republic on 18 January 1996 and consecrated a bishop on 30 March 1996. Ljavinec retired as apostolic exarch on 23 April 2003.
He lived as the Apostolic Exarch emeritus in the House of St. Elżbeta in Žernůvka, Czech Republic, where died. His body was transferred in Ukraine and, on 15 December 2012, buried in his native Volovec.
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Who was Ivan Ljavinec?
Catholic bishop (1923–2012)
When was Ivan Ljavinec born?
Ivan Ljavinec was born on 18 April 1923 in Volovets.
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Ivan Ljavinec died on 9 December 2012 in Žernůvka.
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Ivan Ljavinec was a catholic priest, poet and catholic bishop.
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Ivan Ljavinec was Czech.
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