In office 1996 - 2012 Ordination July 28, 1946 Name Ivan Ljavinec | Successor vacant Predecessor Benigno Chiriboga Consecration March 30, 1996 | |
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Church Byzantine Catholic Church See Titular See of Acalissus Born 18 April 1923
Volovec, Czechoslovakia (present day Ukraine) ( 1923-04-18 ) Died December 9, 2012, Czech Republic Diocese Ruthenian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Czech Republic | ||
Ivan Ljavinec (18 April 1923 – 9 December 2012) was a Czech hierarch of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church.
Ljavinec was born in Volovec, Czechoslovakia (now in Ukraine) and ordained a priest on 28 July 1946. Ljavinec was appointed titular bishop of Acalissus as well as Apostolic Exarch of the Apostolic Exarchate in the Czech Republic on 18 January 1996 and consecrated a bishop on 30 March 1996. Ljavinec retired as apostolic exarch on 23 April 2003.
He lived as the Apostolic Exarch emeritus in the House of St. Elżbeta in Žernůvka, Czech Republic, where died. His body was transferred in Ukraine and, on 15 December 2012, buried in his native Volovec.
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