Neil Savaryn
{{Infobox Christian leader
| name = Neil Savaryn, O.S.B.M.
| image =
| birth_name = Mykola Vasylyovych Savaryn
| birth_date = {{birth date|1905|5|19|df=y}}
| birth_place = Staryi Sambir, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present day Lviv Oblast, Ukraine)
| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1986|1|8|1905|5|19}}
| death_place = Edmonton, Canada
| church = Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
| title = Eparchial Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Edmonton
| appointed = 19 January 1948 (as Apostolic Exarch)
3 November 1956 (as Eparchial Bishop)
| ended = 8 January 1986
| ordination = 23 August 1931 (Priest)
| ordained_by = Bl. Josaphat Kotsylovsky
| consecration = 1 July 1943 (Bishop)
| consecrated_by = Basil Ladyka,
James Charles McGuigan,
Ambrose Senyshyn
| predecessor = New Creation
| successor = Demetrius Greschuk
| other_post = Titular Bishop of Ios (1943–1956),
Auxiliary Bishop of Apostolic Exarchate of Canada (1943–1948)
}}
Neil Nicholas Savaryn, O.S.B.M. ({{langx|uk|Ніл Микола Саварин}}; 19 May 1905 in Staryi Sambir, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Lviv Oblast, Ukraine) – 8 January 1986 in Edmonton, Canada) was a Ukrainian-born Canadian Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch. He served as the titular bishop of Ios and auxiliary bishop of Apostolic Exarchate of Canada from 3 April 1943 until 19 January 1948 and as the first eparchial bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Edmonton from 19 January 1948 until his death on 8 January 1986 (until 10 March 1951 with title of Apostolic Exarch of Western Canada and until 3 November 1956 with title of Apostolic Exarch of Edmonton).
Life
Savaryn was born in the family of Vasyl and Anna (née Syherych) Savaryn in Halychyna. After the school and gymnasium education, he subsequently joined the Order of Saint Basil the Great on August 28, 1922, where he made a profession on July 3, 1924, and a solemn profession on September 14, 1930. Savaryn was ordained as a priest on August 23, 1931, after completed philosophical and theological studies in the Basilian Theological Seminary.
In 1932 he arrived to Canada as Hegumen of the monastery in Mundare and professor at the Basilian Institutes in Canada.{{Cite book|title=Ієрархія Київської Церкви (861—1996)|last=Блажейовський|first=Дмитро|year=1996|publisher=Каменяр|location=Львів|pages=350|language=Ukrainian|isbn=}}
On April 3, 1943, Savaryn was nominated by Pope Pius XII and on July 1, 1943 consecrated to the Episcopate as the titular bishop of Ios and auxiliary bishop of Apostolic Exarchate of Canada. The principal consecrator was Archbishop Basil Ladyka.{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bsavaryn|Bishop Nilus Nicholas Savaryn, O.S.B.M. †|14 September 2017}}
Savaryn founded eparchial museum and library and died on January 8, 1986, at the age 80.
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Category:People from Staryi Sambir
Category:People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Category:Ukrainian emigrants to Canada
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Category:Canadian Eastern Catholic bishops
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Category:Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
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Category:Order of Saint Basil the Great
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