Lubomyr Husar

Lubomyr Husar MSU (Liubomyr Huzar; 26 February 1933 – 31 May 2017) was the major archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, a minority church in Ukraine but the largest sui juris Eastern church in full communion with the Holy See.

His Eminent Beatitude  Lubomyr Husar Любомир Гузар
Cardinal, Major Archbishop Emeritus of Kyiv-Galicia
Church	Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Kyiv
Province	Kyiv
Appointed	29 August 2005
Reign ended	10 February 2011
Predecessor	Myroslav Lubachivsky
Successor	Sviatoslav Shevchuk
Other posts	Cardinal-Priest of S. Sofia a Via Boccea
Orders
Ordination	30 March 1958
Consecration	2 April 1976 by Josyf Slipyj
Created Cardinal	21 February 2001
Rank	Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Birth name	Lubomyr Lev Luka Husar
Born	(1933-02-26)26 February 1933 Lwów, Second Polish Republic (present day Ukraine)
Died	May 31, 2017(2017-05-31) (aged 84) Kniazhychi, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
Nationality	Ukrainian
Denomination	Ukrainian Greek Catholic
Residence	Kniazhychi, Kyiv Oblast
Previous post	Titular Bishop of Nisa in Lycia (1996–2001) Major Archbishop of Lviv (2001–2004) Major Archbishop of Kyiv (2004–2011)
Coat of arms

Husar was also a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. After the transfer of the see of Lviv to Kyiv in 2005, he was the Ukrainian Catholic Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Galicia. In February 2011 he became Major Archeparch Emeritus after he resigned due to ill health.

Husar died on 31 May 2017 following a long-illness in Kniazhychi, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine at the age of 84.

Other websites

• Cardinalrating pages concerning him Archived 2006-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
• An interview published in February 2004 by Zerkalo Nedeli (Mirror Weekly), Kyiv, in Ukrainian and in Russian.
• Biography at Catholic-pages.com Archived 2015-10-01 at the Wayback Machine
• Biography at Catholic-hierarchy.com