His Eminence Lubomyr Cardinal Husar (born 26 February 1933) is a Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church, Major Archbishop of Lvov of the Ukrainians, and is the primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the second largest church of the Catholic Communion.

Born in Lvov, Ukraine, Husar fled Ukraine with his parents in 1944, during World War II. He studied at Catholic University of America and Fordham University in the United States, and was ordained a priest on 30 March 1958 for the eparchy of Stanford of the Ukrainians.

From 1958 to 1969, he taught at St. Basil's College Seminary and was pastor at Kerhonkson between 1966 and 1969. In 1969, Husar went to Rome, where he spent three years earning a doctorate in theology. He then entered the Monastery of Studiti in Grottaferrata in Italy, and was named its Superior in 1974.

Consecrated a bishop in 1977 by Cardinal Josyf Slipyi , without papal approval, he was named Archimandrite of the Studiti Monks in Europe and America in 1978. He organized a new Studiti monastery in Ternopil, Ukraine, in 1994, and was elected by the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Church as exarch of the archiepiscopal exarchy of Kyiv-Vyshorod, Ukraine in 1995, confirmed by the pope the following year. Although once a citizen of the United States, Husar gave up his American citizenship upon returning to his native Ukraine.

In December 2000, Pope John Paul II named Husar apostolic administrator of the Major-Archdiocese of Lvov of the Ukrainians, and he was elected Major Archbishop in January 2001. He was one of the Cardinals considered papabile at the 2005 Papal conclave to succeed John Paul II.

External links

• Biography at catholic-pages.com