David Motiuk Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific Prefix:Most Reverend
David Motiuk
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Edmonton
Church:Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Term:January 24, 2007
Predecessor:Lawrence Huculak, O.S.B.M.
Ordination:August 21, 1988
Ordained By:Bishop Demetrius Martin Greschuk
Consecration:June 11, 2002
Consecrated By:Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, M.S.U.
Birth Name:David Motiuk
Birth Date:13 January 1962
Birth Place:Vegreville, Alberta, Canada

David Motiuk (born January 13, 1962, in Vegreville, Alberta) is the bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Edmonton. He was ordained a priest on 21 August 1988 and was ordained a bishop in Winnipeg on 11 June 2002. He was appointed Eparchial Bishop of Edmonton on 25 January 2007 and installed on 24 March 2007. On January 16, 2020, he was appointed an Apostolic Administrator of the Eparchy of New Westminster.[1] He holds a doctorate in Eastern Catholic canon law from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome.

Scholarly work

In October 2014, David presented "An Overview of the Ukrainian Catholic Church on the Eve of the Second Vatican Council" at the conference "The Vatican II Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches, Orientalium ecclesiarum - Fifty Years Later" organized by the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies held at the University of Toronto.[2]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bishop David Motiuk Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of New Westminster. 2021-10-25. nweparchy.ca. 17 January 2021 .
  2. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Web site: Ukrainian Catholic Church on the Eve of Vatican II, David Motiuk . YouTube.