vatican.va - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Milan Lach, S.J., auxiliary of Bratislava for Catholics of Byzantine rite, as apostolic visitator for Slovakian Greek-Catholic faithful in Western Europe.
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Bishop Milan Lach, S.J., was born on 18 November 1973 in Kežmarok, in the archeparchy of Prešov of the Byzantines, Slovakia.
He attended the Greek-Catholic Theological Faculty of Prešov, and in 1995 entered the Jesuit novitiate in Trnava, subsequently completing his studies at the Theological Faculty of the University of Trnava.
He was ordained a priest on 1 July 2001 in Košice.
After ordination, he first served as an employee in the scientific area (2001-2003) and superior (2009-2011) of the Michal Lacko Centre for East-West Spirituality in Košice. He was awarded a doctorate in Oriental ecclesiastical sciences from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome (2009), and went on to serve as spiritual father at the Pontifical College Russicum (2009), spiritual assistant of the Federation of Scouts of Europe (2009), member of the editorial team of the theological journal Verba Theologica, and vice-dean of the Theological Faculty of the University of Trnava (since 2011).
On 19 April 2013, the Holy Father appointed him as auxiliary bishop of the archeparchy of Prešov of the Byzantines, assigning him the titular see of Ostracine.
From 2016 to 2017 he was visitator of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches for the Oriental Seminaries and Colleges of Rome.
On 24 June 2017 he was appointed apostolic administrator sede vacante of the eparchy of Parma of the Ruthenians, United States of America, becoming bishop of the same circumscription on 1 June 2018.
Since 23 January 2023 he has held the office of auxiliary bishop of the eparchy of Bratislava for Catholics of Byzantine rite.