Eduard Kava

Most Reverend Edward Kawa, O.F.M. Conv.
Titular Bishop of Cilibia, Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Appointed	13 May 2017
Other post(s)	Delegate of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual for Ukraine (2008–2017)
Orders
Ordination	1 June 2003 by Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz
Consecration	21 June 2017 by Mieczysław Mokrzycki
Personal details
Birth name	Edward Kawa
Born	(1978-04-17) 17 April 1978 (age 43) Mostyska, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
Coat of arms

Bishop Edward Kawa, O.F.M. Conv. (Ukrainian: Едвард Кава; born 17 April 1978) is a Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate as the Titular Bishop of Cilibia and Auxiliary bishop of Archdiocese of Lviv since 13 May 2017.

Life[]

Bishop Kawa was born in the Polish family of Stanisław and Kazimiera (née Dorosz) Kawa in the Western Ukraine. After graduation of the school education, joined the Order of Friars Minor Conventual in 1995;^[1] he made a profession on September 28, 1997 and a solemn profession on December 15, 2001, and was ordained as priest on June 1, 2003,^[2] after graduation of the Major Franciscan Theological Seminary in Kraków, Poland and Major Theological Seminary of Mary – the Queen of Apostles in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.^[1]

He returned to Ukraine in 2003 and began to work in the Franciscan parishes and as superior of the different local Franciscan communities. During 2016–2017 he served as a Guardian of the convent of the parish of St. Antony in Lviv.^[1]

On May 13, 2017, he was appointed by the Pope Francis as the second Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Lviv, Ukraine and Titular Bishop of Cilibia. On June 21, 2017, he was consecrated as bishop by Metropolitan Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church.^[2]

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See also[]

• List of youngest living Catholic bishops