Petro Herkulan Malchuk, O.F.M. (; pol. Piotr Malczuk 7 July 1965 – 27 May 2016) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kyiv-Zhytomyr.

Life

Malchuk was born in Slobozia-Rașcov in the Moldovan SSR into a Polish family.

Petro Herkulan Malchuk

He began studies at the Seminary of Riga in 1986. On 7 June 1992 Petro Herkulan Malchuk was ordained a priest by Jan Olszanski MIC, Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi. In 1993 he made the Franciscan order profession.

Petro Herkulan Malchuk

Pope Benedict XVI in 2008 appointed him titular bishop of media, and as auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Southeast Ukrainian Odessa-Simferopol. The episcopal ordination took place on 3 May 2008, with Cardinal Marian Jaworski, Archbishop of Lviv; and Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine and Bronislaw Bernacki, Bishop of Odessa-Simferopol as co-consecrators.

Petro Herkulan Malchuk

On 15 June 2011 he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI with a personal title of Archbishop ("personal capacity") to the pastors of the Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr. The inauguration at the St. Alexander's Cathedral (Kiev) was the first since 1680 in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev itself; Malchuk is also the first pastor of the diocese, and holds the title of an archbishop.

He died on 27 May 2016 of a suspected heart attack in Grodno while participating in the Eucharistic Congress.

Notes

First inauguration of a bishop in Kyiv since 1680", Domradio, 5 August 2011

See also

References

External links

http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmalchuk.html

http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/kyiv2.htm#23941

1965 births

2016 deaths

People from Camenca District

Transnistrian people of Polish descent

Ukrainian people of Polish descent

Roman Catholic bishops of Kyiv

Ukrainian Friars Minor