Oleksiy Bazyuk

Oleksiy Bazyuk (Ukrainian: Олексій Базюк; 26 March 1873 – 12 June 1952) was a Greek Catholic hierarch.

[1] He was ordained as priest on 9 April 1898 by Metropolitan Joseph Sembratovych for the Archeparchy of Lviv,[2][3] while completing his studies in Rome.

He served in office until 1925[2] with the sees in Sarajevo (1914–1917) and after – in Banja Luka (1917–1925),[3] when the Apostolic Administration was suppressed and merged again with the Eparchy of Križevci.

Bazyuk continued to serve in Bosnia until the end of 1926 as a parish priest in Banja Luka and the Apostolic Vicar of Bosnia-Hercegovina.

When the Communist regime abolished the Greek-Catholic Church in 1946, he clandestinely continued to serve as a priest in the Carpathian Mountains village Volosianka and after in Lavochne, where he died on 12 June 1952, in the age 79.