11 Facts About Stefan Czmil

Stefan Czmil was a Ukrainian Eastern Catholic known for his missionary work in Argentina as well as for work in his native Ukraine and Italy.

Stefan Czmil studied philosophy at the Salesian College of Philosophical Studies in Foglizzo, then interrupted his studies for a two-year educative stage amongst the novices of Villa Moglia, after which he was admitted to the Salesian House of Studies in Bolengo for his Theology, during World War II.

Stefan Czmil was a teacher in the Salesian school of Valdocco and an assistant in the Salesian Motherhouse of Valdocco to the Salesian Missionaries who came from overseas for a period of rest.

In 1948, with the assent of his superiors, Stefan Czmil was sent by the sacred Congregation for the Oriental Churches for a 12-year period of apostolic and missionary work with Ukrainian immigrants in Argentina.

In 1961 Stefan Czmil became the new Director of the Ukrainian Pontifical Minor Seminary, Via Boccea 480, Rome, 00166 which by then had 110 seminarians and approximately 10 teachers.

Stefan Czmil acted as spiritual lecturer and confessor to the Ukrainian religious communities in Rome.

Stefan Czmil was lecturer of Italian language and literature at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome: Stefan Czmil supervised and edited the second volume of the Ukrainian-Italian, Italian-Ukrainian Dictionary.

Stefan Czmil was member of the Commission for annulments of matrimony for Ukrainians in Italy, assigned to the cases of mixed marriages.

Stefan Czmil was endowed in the Basilica of Saint Sophia in Rome with the title of Archimandrite on 8 December 1977, with the traditional mitre, pectoral cross and crozier.

Stefan Czmil's health deteriorated dramatically, and he had to be hospitalized.

Stefan Czmil seemed to be recovering, but on the morning of 22 January 1978 he fainted after celebrating the Divine Liturgy, and died.