Athanasius Pekar

Father

Vasily Atanasi "Athanasius Basil" Pekar

OSBM
Native name
Атанасій Пекар
ChurchUkrainian Catholic Church
Orders
Ordination1946
Personal details
Born(1922-03-01)March 1, 1922
Perechyn, Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpatska, Ukraine
DiedSeptember 28, 2011(2011-09-28) (aged 89)
Glen Cove, Nassau County, New York, US
NationalityAmerican
OccupationUkrainian Catholic priest, author, academic
Alma materPontifical Urban University
Pontifical Gregorian University

Vasily Atanasi "Athanasius Basil" Pekar (Ukrainian: Атанасій Пекар) OSBM (1 Mar 1922 – 28 Sep 2011) was a notable American Ukrainian Catholic priest, author, and academic born in Perechyn, Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpatska, now in Ukraine.[1] Pekar was a hieromonk member of the faculty at Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;[2] he was an editor of and contributor to the periodical Byzantine Catholic World. He was ordained in 1946 and completed studies at the Pontifical Urban University (B.Ph. 1942, Dr.Th. 1947) followed by a BaccHe in 1948 at the Pontifical Gregorian University.[3] He was a member of the Order of Saint Basil the Great, also known as the Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat; he served as pastor of churches in western Pennsylvania including St. John the Baptist Greek Catholic Church in Uniontown. He died in Glen Cove, Nassau County, New York.[4]

Pekar was a member of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences (UVAN) formed by Ukrainian émigré scholars in Augsburg, Germany, as an academy in exile;[5] the Shevchenko Scientific Society, and the faculty of the Ukrainian Catholic University.[6]

On 1 March 2018, Uzhhorod National University held a symposium on Pekar's life and writings entitled "A Life Dedicated to Truth: Hieromonk Athanasius Vasyl Pekar, OSBM" (Життя присвячене Правді: ієромонах Атанасій Василь Пекар).[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ * Magocsi, Paul Robert and Ivan Pop (2005). Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-3566-3.
  2. ^ Robert M. Pipta, History of the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius
  3. ^ 'Byzantine Kyivan Rite Students in Pontifical Colleges, (Rome, 1984), Analecta OSBM Series II, Sectio I, p. 142.
  4. ^ "О. Атанасій Пекар – світлий приклад священика-василіянина, науковця, історика". CREDO. 5 October 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2025.
  5. ^ "Fellows – У В А Н • U V A N". uvan.org. Archived from the original on 28 Feb 2018. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  6. ^ "Пам'яті о. Атанасія Пекара – найвизначнішого дослідника історії церкви Закарпаття @ Закарпаття онлайн". zakarpattya.net.ua. Archived from the original on 26 Feb 2018. Retrieved 2018-02-24.
  7. ^ "О. Атанасій Пекар – світлий приклад священика-василіянина, науковця, історика". РІСУ – Релігійно-інформаційна служба України/RISU – Religious Information Service of Ukraine. 2 March 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2025.

Bibliography

Pekar was a prolific author of books, pamphlets, journal articles, and translations of other authors in Ukrainian and in English, publishing in Italy, Ukraine, the United States, and Brazil. His Outlines of the History of the Church in Transcarpathia (Нариси історії Церкви Закарпаття) in three volumes was begun in 1967 and completed posthumously in 2014.

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