Piotr Kryk
Ukrainian-German Greek Catholic bishop
About Piotr Kryk
Born 1945. Piotr Kryk is a Polish catholic priest, catholic deacon and catholic bishop.
Bishop Petro Kryk (, born 25 April 1945 in Kobylnica Wołoska, Rzeszów Voivodeship (now Podkarpackie Voivodeship), Poland) is a German Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch as the emeritus Apostolic Exarch of the Apostolic Exarchate in Germany and Scandinavia for the Ukrainians and the Titular Bishop of Castra Martis from 20 November 2000 until 18 February 2021.
Life Bishop Kryk was born in the family of Greek-Catholics Hryhoriy and Anna Kryk in 1945, but during Operation Vistula in the 1947, his family was forcibly resettled with another Ukrainians in Poland, from ethnical Ukrainian territories to the Recovered Territories in the northern Poland. After school and lyceum education, he joined the Theological Seminary Hosianum in Olsztyn. He interrupted his theological studies because of compulsory service in the Polish Armed Forces in 1965–1967 and continued theological education in the Metropolitan Theological Seminary in Warsaw.
On 20 November 2000, Kryk was appointed and, on 3 February 2001, was consecrated to the episcopate as Titular Bishop of Castra Martis and the Apostolic Exarch in Germany and Scandinavia for the Ukrainians. The principal consecrator was Metropolitan Jan Martyniak.
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Who is Piotr Kryk?
ukrainian-German Greek Catholic bishop
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Piotr Kryk was born on 25 April 1945 in Kobylnica Wołoska.
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Piotr Kryk is a catholic priest, catholic deacon and catholic bishop.
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Piotr Kryk is Polish.
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