Oleksandr Malynovskyi


Very Reverend Oleksandr Malynovskyi was a Greek Catholic hierarch. He served as the Apostolic Exarch of the Apostolic Exarchate of Lemkowszczyzna from 5 February 1941 until his resignation on September 1945.

Life

Oleksandr Malynovskyi was born in the family of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest Rev. Ivan and his wife Valeriya Malynovskyi in 1889 in the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv.

Military career

After graduation of the male gymnasium in Przemyśl in 1906, he joined Faculty of Law of the Lviv University and subsequently enter in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Participated in the I World War in rank of oberleutnant and after proclamation of independence of the West Ukrainian People's Republic he joined the Ukrainian Galician Army, until his retirement in 1919.

Ecclesiastical Service

Malynovskyi joined the Greek-Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv and was ordained as priest in 1925 by Metropolitan Andriy Sheptytsky for the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv, after completed his studies. After the one year parish work, Fr. Malynovskyi become prefect and vice-rector in the Theological Seminary in Lviv. From 1940 until 1941 he served as Vicar General of the Apostolic Administration of Lemkowszczyzna.
On February 5, 1941, Fr. Malynovskyi was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of the Apostolic Administration of Lemkowszczyzna without dignity of bishop.
In September 1945 he resigned as Apostolic Exarch and escaped in the West, threatened with arrest and deportation to the Soviet Union. He became prefect of the Ukrainian Theological Seminary in Hirschberg, Germany and after transfer the Seminary to Culemborg, Netherlands, it rector. His last years Monsignor Malynovskyi spent in the United Kingdom, where he served as Vicar General for the Ukrainian Greek-Catholics and Vicar General of the Apostolic Exarchate of England and Wales. He died on November 18, 1957 in the age 68.