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Symeon Lukach

1893 – 1964

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Symeon Lukach (Ukrainian: Симеон Лукач; 7 July 1893 – 22 August 1964) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and martyr. Lukach was born in the village of Starunya, Stanislaviv Region. His parents were peasant farmers. He entered the seminary in 1913. His studies were interrupted for two years during World War I, he finished in 1919. In that year he was ordained a priest by Bishop Hryhory Khomyshyn. He taught moral theology at the seminary in Stanislaviv until April 1945 when Khomyshyn ordained him a bishop. He was first arrested on 26 October 1949 by the NKVD and deported to Siberia (Krasnoyar