Petro Loza CSsR
Titular Bishop of Panium, Auxiliary Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Sokal–Zhovkva
Church	Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Appointed	12 April 2018
Orders
Ordination	26 August 2007 (Priest) by Ihor Vozniak
Consecration	12 July 2018 (Bishop) by Sviatoslav Shevchuk
Personal details
Born	Petro Loza (1979-06-03) 3 June 1979 (age 44) Kolodentsi, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
Alma mater	University of Innsbruck
Coat of arms

Bishop Petro Loza CSsR (Ukrainian: Петро Лоза; born 3 June 1979 in Kolodentsi, Kamianka-Buzka Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch as the Titular Bishop of Panium and Auxiliary bishop of Sokal–Zhovkva since 12 April 2018.

Life

Bishop Loza, after graduation of the school education, joined the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer in 1997; he had a profession in 1998 and a solemn profession in 2003, and was ordained as priest on 26 August 2007, after graduation of the Major Redemptorists Theological Seminary in Lviv, Ukraine (1998–2001) and the University of Innsbruck, Austria (2001–2009). During 2011–2014 he served as a provincial assistant for the Ukrainian Redemptorists Province and from 2014 until 2018 was a superior in the Sts. Peter and Paul church in Chernihiv.^[1]

On 12 April 2018, he was confirmed by Pope Francis as the first Auxiliary Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Sokal–Zhovkva, Ukraine and Titular Bishop of Panium. On 12 July 2018, he was consecrated as bishop by Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk and other hierarchs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the Sts Peter and Paul Cathedral in Sokal.^[2]

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