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vladyka Cyril Vasiľ SJ

Cyril Vasiľ is a Slovak Greek Catholic archbishop. He is currently the eparchial bishop of the Košice Eparchy and the papal delegate for the Syro-Malabar Church in India. He studied theology at the Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology in Bratislava and was ordained a priest in 1987, when he also emigrated to Italy. In his new position, he supplemented his theological education with a licentiate and later a doctorate in canon law, and in 1990 he entered the Society of Jesus in Genoa. In the following years, he held several important positions, including Dean of the Faculty of Eastern Canon Law and Rector of the Pontifical Oriental Institute. He was ordained bishop in Rome in 2009 and was also appointed secretary of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches. After 33 years in Italy, he returned to Slovakia in 2020.

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