Him Death of Pope Francis He left an ambiguous ecclesiastical panorama waiting to see what is the way in which the Church will travel now after the death of such a austere and renewal Pope. This has concentrated the looks on all cardinals, who in the coming weeks will meet in the conclave to decide the new supreme pontiff. Among all the members there is one who stands out for their jovial aspect and who will be the youngest member of the next meeting of Cardinalia. The Ukrainian Mykola Bychok.
The 45 -year -old religious, who currently acts as bishop in the Australian city of MelbournAnd, Received Francisco’s blessing on December 7thIn the last town hall led by the papacy, where the universe of 133 cardinal will be configured who will choose who will occupy the San Pedro chair.
One day after becoming the youngest member of Cardinal College, Declared Bychok to the Australian ABC public chain that I would never have dreamed of climbing to this position at the same age when I expected to be a simple redeemer. “Be a priest and now,” he said. At that time he also expressed his intention of being a cardinal “Flexible, holy, accessible and without eminence”committed to Continue to report the war in your countrywhich qualifies as a genocide by Russia.
His religious formation took place in Ukraine and Poland, where he obtained a degree in pastoral theology. Him August 17, 2003Bychok made his religious votes and on May 3, 2005 he was ordained a priest in the Archieparchy of Lipolis, in his hometown. After exercising as a missionary in Russia, shepherd and superior in Ukraine and vicar in the United States, he was appointed in 2020 Los Santos Pedro and Pablo De Melbourne in 2020, where Ukrainian diaspora is needed in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania.
Pray for the cardinals to choose a “worthy candidate”
The bishop He arrives in Rome only 20 years after being ordered a priest And after recently asked the faithful “Prayers for cardinal voters who will meet in the conclave“.
“That the Holy Spirit illuminates our hearts and minds so that we can choose a worthy candidate like Bishop 267 of Rome,” he said through his Facebook page.
In the same publication, he recalled that last December He asked Francisco to pray for Ukraine, but now he says that the deceased Ponteff “intercepted in front of Christ for the peoples of Australia and Ukraine” And for God “grant him the grace to live” his “mission as the cardinal of the Catholic Church”.
Just as Bychok is the youngest in Cardenalicio College, The Italian Acerbi Ángelo and the Argentine Esteban Estanislao, both with 99 years old, are the elderly of the slope, yes ok They will not be able to vote for the Vatican standard that excludes those over 80 years of age from the Conclave, which will leave 117 religious outside this appointment. Among those who can vote, the oldest is the Carlos Osoro Sierra Spanish, 79 and the Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Madrid.
The Australian-Ukrainian cardinal, as he defines himself, will enter the chapel of Sistine alongside a heterogeneous group of voters, by 71 countries, which are not known together and without a common idea on the future of the Church.
