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Rafal Wladyslaw Kiernicki, O.F.M. Conv. (Ukrainian: Рафал Владислав Керницький; Polish: Rafał Władysław Kiernicki; 3 May 1912 – 23 November 1995) was a Roman Catholic prelate from Ukraine as the Titular Bishop of Dura and Auxiliary bishop of Archdiocese of Lviv since 16 January 1991 until his death on 23 November 1995.
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Rafal Wladyslaw Kiernicki, O.F.M. Conv. (Ukrainian: Рафал Владислав Керницький; Polish: Rafał Władysław Kiernicki; 3 May 1912 – 23 November 1995) was a Roman Catholic prelate from Ukraine as the Titular Bishop of Dura and Auxiliary bishop of Archdiocese of Lviv since 16 January 1991 until his death on 23 November 1995.
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Life Kiernicki was born in the peasant Roman Catholic family of Antoni and Michalina (née Światłowska) Kiernicki in a present day of the territory of Kolomyia Raion of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. After graduation of the primary school in his native village (1920–1924) and the neighbouring village Hvozdets (1924–1927), he continued to study in a Franciscan gymnasium in Lviv (1927–1934). While studied in gymnasium, he joined the Order of Friars Minor Conventual in 1930; made a profession on September 4, 1931 and a solemn profession on October 4, 1934. Kiernicki subsequently made a philosophical and theological studies at the Franciscan Theological Seminaries in Lviv, Kraków and at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Lviv and the Major Roman Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv and was ordained as priest on June 29, 1939 by Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski. During first Soviet and Nazi occupations of the Western Ukraine he served as a parish priest and professor in the Theological Seminary. In the same time he was the clandestine member and chaplain of the Home Army. Was arrested by the NKVD in 1941, but avoided the death, because of the prison Brygidki's escape. In 1944 he was again arrested by NKVD and…