Rafal Kiernicki

(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.

[1] During first Soviet and Nazi occupations of the Western Ukraine he served as a parish priest and professor in the Theological Seminary.

In 1944 he was again arrested by NKVD and imprisoned until 1948, when was released and continued to serve as a parish priest and during a period of the Polish population transfers (1944–1946) he remained in the Soviet Union.

On March 2, 1991, he was consecrated as bishop by Metropolitan Archbishop Marian Jaworski and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church[1] in the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, Lviv.

[2] Kiernicki's canonisation process was opened on May 4, 2012 in the century of his birth date in the Cathedral Basilica in Lviv and he became a Servant of God.