Oleksandr Malynovskyi

Very Reverend Oleksandr Malynovskyi (; 12 January 1889 in Zhukiv, Austro-Hungarian Empire /present day in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine/ – 18 November 1957 in Bradford, United Kingdom) was a Greek Catholic hierarch. He served as the Apostolic Exarch of the Apostolic Exarchate of Lemkowszczyzna from 5 February 1941 until his resignation in September 1945.

Biography Oleksandr Malynovskyi was born in the family of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest Rev. Ivan and his wife Valeriya (née Perfetska) Malynovskyi in 1889 in the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv.

Military career After graduation of the male gymnasium in Przemyśl in 1906, he joined Faculty of Law of the Lviv University and subsequently enter the ⁣Austro-Hungarian Army. Participated in the I World War in rank of oberleutnant and after proclamation of independence of the West Ukrainian People's Republic he joined the Ukrainian Galician Army, until his retirement in 1919.

In September 1945 he resigned as Apostolic Exarch and escaped in the West, threatened with arrest and deportation to the Soviet Union. He became prefect of the Ukrainian Theological Seminary in Hirschberg, Germany (1946–1948) and after transfer the Seminary to Culemborg, Netherlands, it rector (1948–1950). His last years, Monsignor Malynovskyi spent in the United Kingdom, where he served as Vicar General for the Ukrainian Greek-Catholics (1951–1957) and Vicar General of the Apostolic Exarchate of England and Wales (1957). He died on 18 November 1957 at the age 68.