Stepan Vaprovych
Roman Catholic bishop
About Stepan Vaprovych
Lived 1899 – 1964 (aged 64). Stepan Vaprovych was a greek-Catholic priest, catholic priest and catholic bishop.
Stepan Vaprovych (; 1 May 1899 – 2 March 1964) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic clandestine hierarch. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk from 1945 to 1964.
Biography Born in Ivane-Puste, Austrian-Hungarian Empire (present-day – Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine) in 1899 and was ordained a priest on 1926 by Blessed Bishop Hryhoriy Khomyshyn. After ordination he served a short time in the village Tsenyava and then, from 1927, as missionary priest in Apóstoles, Argentina. After returning in Ukraine from 1935 until 1939 Fr. Vaprovych was a prefect in the Stanislaviv Theological Seminary, and from 1939 until 1941 served as priest in the Apostolic Exarchate of Lemkowszczyzna.
He died in his native village on 2 March 1964.
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Stepan Vaprovych was born on 1 May 1899 in Ivane-Puste.
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Stepan Vaprovych died on 2 March 1964 in Ivane-Puste.
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