Stephen Fartuszok
The Rev. Stepan Sus, head of the Military Chaplaincy Center in Lviv.
CHICAGO – Father Stepan Sus, a graduate of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in Lviv, has been nominated to become a bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. Father Sus, who turned 38 in October, will be the world’s youngest Catholic bishop.
On Friday, November 15, Vatican officials announced that the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, having received prior approval from the pope, conducted the canonical election of Father Sus, a priest of the UGCC Archeparchy of Lviv, as a bishop of the Curia of the Kyiv-Halych Supreme Archbishop. He was given a Zegris titular residence.
The news was reported by Vatican Radio.
Bishop-nominee Stepan Sus was born on October 7, 1981, in Lviv. After studying at Lviv Theological Seminary of the Holy Spirit (now the Ukrainian Catholic University), he received diaconal ordination in 2005 and on June 30, 2006, his ordination as a priest.
He served as a chaplain at Lviv National Ground Forces Academy and other local educational institutions. In 2008-2012 he was responsible for the pastoral care of servicemen in the Lviv Archeparchy. Since 2012 he has been synkellos of the Lviv Archeparchy for servicemen, students and orphans’ affairs, as well as a parish priest of Ss. Peter and Paul Garrison Church in Lviv.