ozar was born in lviv during the interwar period. in 1944. his family left soviet ukraine. the future patriarch grew up in the united states of america, where he received a religious education. at the time the ukrainian greek catholic church was banned in the soviet union. in 1977 , cardinal joseph the blind, secretly from the vatican , ordained three bishops for the ukrainian church, one of whom became a guzar. his ordination became known only after 19 years. cardinal lubomyr guzzarpo to his homeland. returned already after the declaration of independence, in 2001 he was appointed head of the ukrainian greek catholic church, that summer for the first time in the history of ukraine pope ivan paul ii came to lviv, in whose visit huzar was also involved, and then his beatitude lubomyr advised president leonid kuchma to invite the pope to ukraine. then only the lord god knows, and a narrow circle of people, what obstacles there were until the last moment for pope ivan paul ii to come to ukraine, but his word was final: i am going, and he came to ukraine, one of the main tasks