Walter Paska was a bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States.
12 Facts About Wolodymyr Paska
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Wolodymyr Paska served as the Auxiliary Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia from 1992 to 2000.
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Wolodymyr Paska was ordained a priest for the Archeparchy of Philadelphia on June 2,1947.
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Wolodymyr Paska went on to earn a master's degree in medieval English literature from Fordham University in 1952 and a doctorate in canon law from The Catholic University of America School of Canon Law in 1975.
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Wolodymyr Paska had a varied career after ordination to the priesthood.
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Wolodymyr Paska held pastoral assignments in Brooklyn, New York; Elizabeth, New Jersey; Hempstead, New York; Stamford, Connecticut; Chester, Pennsylvania; Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and Williamstown, New Jersey.
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Wolodymyr Paska served as the first chancellor and vicar general of the Eparchy of St Nicholas in Chicago from 1969 to 1971.
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From 1975 to 1978 he was a professor of canon law at The Catholic University of America School of Canon Law, and from 1979 to 1984 as rector at St Josaphat Seminary in Washington, DC During these years Wolodymyr Paska served the archeparchy as judicial vicar and vocations director.
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Wolodymyr Paska was ordained a bishop by Archbishop Stephen Sulyk on March 19,1992.
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Wolodymyr Paska served as rector of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Philadelphia from 1992 to 2001.
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Wolodymyr Paska died from complications of a stroke at AristaCare in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, on August 16,2008, at the age of 84.
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Wolodymyr Paska's funeral was celebrated at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and he was buried at Our Lady of Sorrows Cemetery in Langhorne, Pennsylvania.