This was reported by sources in the UGCC. Soon representatives of the church should make public an official statement.

He was the bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Cardinal of the Catholic Church. On January 28, 2001, the Supreme was appointed archbishop of Lviv, and from August 25, 2005 to February 10, 2011, he was Archbishop of Kyiv-Galich, the head of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, after the death of the supreme archbishop Myroslav John Lubachivsky on December 14, 2000, the Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church elected, on January 25, 2001, Bishop Lubomyr Husar a new head.

The next day in the Cathedral of St.. Yura in Lviv, the enthronement of the new archbishop was held, immediately after which the papal nuncio informed that John Paul II, as he said by telegram, not only confirms this choice of the synod, but also gives the newly enthrone supreme archbishop the title of cardinal.