Bishop Mazur was born into a family of ethnically Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Brazil. After attending a minor Basilian seminary, he joined the
Order of Saint Basil the Great, where he had a
profession on February 10, 1981 and a solemn profession on January 1, 1988. Mazur was ordained as a
priest on September 8, 1990, after studies at the St. Basil's Seminary-Studium in
Curitiba. He continued his studies in Italy in the
Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm, graduating with a baccalaureate in Sacred Theology and with a licentiate in Educational Sciences from the
Salesian Pontifical University. On December 21, 2005 Fr. Mazur was nominated by
Pope Benedict XVI and on February 26, 2006
consecrated to the
Episcopate as an auxiliary bishop. The principal
consecrator was Cardinal
Lubomyr Husar, the Head of the
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. ==References==