(CCCB – Ottawa)…His Holiness Pope Francis has appointed Reverend Father Marián Andrej Pacák, C.Ss.R. Eparchial Bishop of the sui iuris Slovak Catholic Eparchy of Saints Cyril and Methodius of the Byzantine Rite in Canada, succeeding The Most Revered John Stephen Pazak, C.Ss.R., who has served as Eparchial Bishop and then as Apostolic Administrator. Revered Father Marián Andrej Pacák, C.Ss.R., was born on 24 April 1973 in Levoča (Slovakia). He entered the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer on 16 August 1991. He was ordained to the priesthood on 12 July 1998 and was assigned Pastor in Stará L’ubovňa, a town
