CHRONOLOGY OF PRIESTS

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• VISITING PRIESTS

Fr. Alexander Shereghy

Fr. Nicephor Chanat ...............   1891-1895

Fr. Michael Balogh

Fr. John Zaklynsky

1. •RESIDENT PRIESTS
   

   (A small number of clergy below were interim priests)

Fr. Gregory Hrushka ...............  1896 – Feb. 1901

Fr. Eliax Klopotovsky ..............   March 1901 – May 1904

Fr. Basil Bikoff ........................   June 1904 – Jan. 1905

Fr. Leonty Vladishefsky ...........   April 1906 – Sept. 1907

Fr. Basil Lubnisky ...................   Sept. 1907 – Dec. 1907

Fr. (St.) Vasily Martysz ...........   Dec. 1907 – Feb. 1910

Fr. Sergei Bazilevich ...............   Feb. 1910 – March 1911

Fr. Ignatius Lachno .................   March 1911 – Jan. 1912

Fr. Stephen Rudenko ...............   Jan. 1912 – Feb. 1912

Fr. Alexander Antoniev ...........   Feb. 1912 – April 1912

Fr. Eugene Krizhanovsky ........   April 1912 – Nov. 1914

Fr. Theodore Chepeleff ...........   Nov. 1914 – Feb. 1919

Fr. Basil Blonsky .....................   March 1919 – Oct. 1922

Fr. Basil Bikoff ........................   Oct. 1922 – July 1923

Fr. John Semanitzsky...............   July 1923 – June 1926

Fr. John Kozitsky ....................   June 1926 – March 1933

Fr. Joseph Pishtey, Sr. ............   April 1933 – July 1935

Fr. Damian Krehel ..................   Aug. 1935 – Aug. 1944

Fr. John Kopistiansky .............   Aug. 1944 – Oct. 1954

Fr. Michael Dirga ...................   Oct. 1954 – Aug. 1957

Fr. John Miller ........................   Sept. 1957 – April 1958

Fr. Daniel Donovan ................   May 1958 – March 1964

Fr. Vladimir Sovyrda ..............   March 1964 – Nov. 1969

Fr. John Chupek ......................   Nov. 1969 – Oct. 1978

Fr. Michael Lepa .....................   Oct. 1978 – Jan. 1979

Fr. John Kuchta .......................   Jan. 1979 – June 1979

Fr. Elias Krenitsky,

Fr. Sebastian Gyza,

Bishop HERMAN ....................   June 1979 – Sept. 1979

Fr. John Adamcio ....................  Sept. 1979 – Sept. 1985

Fr. Theodore Shomsky ............   Sept. 1985 – Nov. 1987

Fr. Thomas Pleska ...................  Nov. 1987 – May 1988

Fr. Valerian Dzury ..................   May 1988 – May 1990

Fr. Elias Krenitsky ..................   May 1990 – Sept. 1990

Fr. Alexander Fecanin .............  Sept. 1990 – 1991

Fr. Nicholas Dotson ................   1991-1993

Fr. David Mahaffey .................   1993 – Jan. 2007

Fr. Stephen Kopestonsky .........   Jan. 2007 – June 2007

Fr. John Soucek ......................   June 2007 – Present