Yosafat Hovera
Yosafat Hovera | |
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| Archiepiscopal Exarch of Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Lutsk | |
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| Church | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
| Appointed | 15 January 2008 |
| Predecessor | New Creation |
| Successor | Incumbent |
| Other post(s) | Titular Bishop of Caesariana (since 2008) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 30 May 1990 (Priest) by Yulian Voronovskyi |
| Consecration | 7 April 2008 (Bishop) by Lubomyr Husar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Oleh Yaroslavovych Hovera 12 September 1967 |
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Bishop Yosafat Oleh Hovera (Ukrainian: Йосафат Олег Говера; born 12 September 1967 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch as an Archiepiscopal Exarch of Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Lutsk and Titular Bishop of Caesariana since 15 January 2008.
Life
[edit]Bishop Hovera was born in the family of clandestine Greek-Catholics in Ivano-Frankivsk, where he grew up. After graduation from school he joined a clandestine theological seminary.[1]
He was ordained as priest for the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv on 30 May 1990, after completing clandestine theological studies, and was appointed as a parish priest in Velyka Berezovytsia. Fr. Hovera continued his studies in the Catholic University of Lublin from 1996 until 1999. After returning to Ukraine he was appointed as a vice-rector of the Major Theological Seminary in Ternopil (1999–2004). During 2004–2007 he again continued his studies, but this time in Rome, in the Pontifical Oriental Institute with a licentiate degree in pastoral theology. In 2007 he was appointed as a Rector of the Theological Seminary in Ternopil.[1]
On 15 January 2008, Hovera was appointed, and on 7 April 2008, was consecrated to the Episcopate as the Titular Bishop of Caesariana. The principal consecrator was Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.[2]
Personal details
[edit]His father, Yaroslav Hovera, was a prisoner in the Soviet Union Gulag and spent 15 years in the corrective labor camp in Karaganda.[3]
Bishop Hovera has a two brothers, who also are a clergymen: Rev. Andriy Ivan Hovera (born 1966), Synkellos of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Ternopil–Zboriv, and Rev. Vasyl Hovera (born 1972), Apostolic Administrator for Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan and Central Asia.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Владика Йосафат Говера". Official Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Lutsk Website (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 26 May 2017.
- ^ "Bishop Josaphat Oleh Hovera". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
- ^ "Апостольський адміністратор о. Василь Говера: «Щоб відслужити Літургію, нашим священникам доводиться долати сотні кілометрів»". Official Website of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 23 December 2019.
