About Yakiv Tymchuk
Lived 1919 – 1988 (aged 69). Yakiv Tymchuk was a catholic priest, catholic deacon and catholic bishop.
Yakiv Yaroslav Tymchuk, O.S.B.M. (; 24 August 1919 – 20 December 1988) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic clandestine hierarch. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk from 1977 to 1988.
Life Born in Duplyska, Second Polish Republic (present-day – Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine) in 1919 and in 1934 joined the religious Order of Saint Basil the Great. He was professed on 31 March 1936, solemn professed on 27 September 1942 and was ordained a priest on 3 January 1943 by Blessed Bishop Hryhorij Lakota. After ordination he served a short time in the monastery in Hoshiv and then as parish priest in Chortkiv.
He died on 20 December 1988.
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Yakiv Tymchuk was born on 24 August 1919 in Duplyska.
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Yakiv Tymchuk died on 20 December 1988 in Chortkiv.
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Yakiv Tymchuk's recorded nationality: West Ukrainian People's Republic.
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