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.