Andrés Sapelak

Andrés Sapelak, S.D.B.
Bishop of Eparchy of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires
Church	Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
See	Eparchy of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires
In office	1968 - 1997
Orders
Ordination	June 29, 1949
Consecration	October 15, 1961
Personal details
Born	(1919-12-13) December 13, 1919 Ryszkowa Wola, Second Polish Republic
Previous post(s)	Priest

Andrés Sapelak, S.D.B. (born December 13, 1919) is an Argentinian hierarch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He is the oldest bishop in this Eastern Catholic Church.

Sapelak was born in Ryszkowa Wola, Second Polish Republic in a Ukrainian family and ordained a priest on June 29, 1949 from the religious order Salesians of Saint John Bosco. He was appointed Auxiliary bishop of Faithful of the Oriental Rites (Argentina) as well as Titular Bishop of Sebastopolis on August 14, 1961 and consecrated on October 15, 1961. On February 9, 1968 Sapelak was appointed bishop of Eparchy of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires where he remained until his retirement on December 12, 1997.

He is returning in Ukraine and worked as parish priest in Verkhnodniprovsk city in the Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk – Kharkiv.

In November 2013 he received Ukrainian citizenship.

See also

• List of oldest Catholic bishops
• Eparchy of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires

External links

• Catholic-Hierarchy