Mykola Luchok

Bishop Mykola Petro Luchok, O.P. (Ukrainian: Микола Петро Лучок; Hungarian: Lucsok Péter Miklós; born 26 March 1974) is a Ukrainian prelate of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church and the Titular Bishop of Giru Marcelli and Auxiliary bishop of Diocese of Mukachevo since 11 November 2019.

Most Reverend Mykola Petro Luchok, O.P.
Titular Bishop of Giru Marcelli, Auxiliary Bishop of Mukachevo
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Appointed	11 November 2019
Other posts	Superior of the Dominican community in Lviv (2018–2019)
Orders
Ordination	24 June 2003 (Priest) by Antal Majnek
Consecration	10 December 2019 (Bishop) by Claudio Gugerotti
Personal details
Birth name	Petro Oleksandrovych Luchok
Born	26 March 1974 Mukachevo, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR

Life

Bishop Luchok was born in the family of Oleksandr Luchok in Zakarpattia Oblast. After graduation of the school education, joined the Dominican Order in 1994;[1] he made a profession on August 29, 1995, and a solemn profession on April 30, 2000, and was ordained as priest on June 23, 2003,[2] after complited studies at the Major Dominican Theological Seminary in Kraków, Poland and the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, Poland.[1]

He returned to Ukraine in 2003 and began to work in the Dominican parishes and as superior of the different local Dominican communities, aspecially in Yalta, Saint Petersburg (Russian Federation), Chortkiv, Lviv and Khmelnytskyi. From 2018 until 2019 he again served as superior of the Dominican community in Lviv.[1]

On November 11, 2019, he was appointed by the Pope Francis as the first Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Mukachevo, Ukraine and Titular Bishop of Giru Marcelli and consecrated in the Cathedral of St Martin of Tours in Mukachevo on December 10, 2019.[2]

References

1. "Папа призначив єпископа-помічника для Мукачівської дієцезії РКЦ". Ukrainian Catholic Media Centre (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 11 November 2019.
2. "Bishop Mykola Petro Luchok, O.P." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 11 November 2019.

See also

• List of youngest living Catholic bishops