OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 17 MAR 2009 (VIS) - Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, major archbishop of Kyiv-Halyc, Ukraine, with the consent of the Synod of the Greek-Catholic Ukrainian Church and in accordance with Canon 85, para. 2,2 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, has transferred Bishop Wasyl Ihor Medwit O.S.B.M., from the office of curial bishop of the major archbishopric of Kyiv-Halyc to that of auxiliary bishop of the archiepiscopal exarchate of Donetsk-Kharkiv (Catholics 8,000, priests 44, religious 22) Ukraine.
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