Roman Catholic Cardinal. Born in Dolyna in the then Austro-Hungarian Empire, presently part of Ukraine, Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky entered seminary in Lviv, successively furthering his studies at Innsbruck's University in Austria, the Theological Faculty of Sion in Switzerland and in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Pontifical Biblical Institute. Ordained priest on September 28, 1938 in Lviv, he rendered ministry there until moving to the United States of America in 1947, where worked among the Ukrainians in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin. Secretary to the archbishop of Philadelphia of the Ukraines and of the Ukrainian section of National Catholic Welfare Conference, he served as faculty member of the Ukrainian Seminary of Stamford and of the Pontifical Ukrainian College of St. Josafat in Rome. Collaborator of the Vatican Radio and spiritual director of the Ukrainian seminaries in Washington and Stamford, he furthermore served as faculty member in several schools and colleges between 1969 and 1979. Pope John Paul II elected him archbishop of the see of Philadelphia of the Ukraines on September 13, 1979, receiving his episcopal consecration on the following November 12 in the Sistine Chapel from the Pontiff himself, being thus the first time for the then newly elected Pope to celebrate an Oriental rite. Named coadjutor archbishop with right of succession of the major archbishopric see of Lviv of the Ukraines on March 27, 1980, he succeeded Cardinal Josyf Ivanovycè Slipyj on his demise on September 7, 1984. Pope John Paul II created him cardinal priest in the consistory of May 25, 1985 with the title of Santa Sofia a Via Boccea. The Cardinal died in office on December 14, 2000 in Lviv and was interred in the crypt of the city's cathedral of Saint George.