On November 12, Bishop Michael Hrynchyshyn, Apostolic Exarch for Ukrainians in France, Benelux and Switzerland, died at age 84.
Bishop Michael Hrynchyshyn was born on February 18, 1929, in Buchanan, Canada. On July 28, 1946, he took his monastic vows in the Redemptorist Order in Yorkton. Bishop Maxim Hermaniuk consecrated him as bishop on May 25, 1952 in Toronto. He ministered in New York, Winnipeg and Saskatoon. In 1955 he defended his doctoral work at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. For a time he taught in seminaries in Canada. Since 1970 has been a postulator in the beatification process of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. Between 1972 and 1981 he was the proto-hegumen for Redemptorist Fathers in Canada and the United States. On November 27, 1982, he was appointed Exarch for Ukrainians in France.