Athanasius Pekar
Vasily Atanasi "Athanasius Basil" Pekar Order of [Saint Basil the Great|OSBM] was a notable American Ukrainian Catholic priest, author, and academic born in Perechyn, Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpatska, now in Ukraine. Pekar was a hieromonk member of the faculty at Byzantine [Catholic Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius] in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; he was an editor of and contributor to the periodical Byzantine Catholic World. He was ordained in 1946 and completed studies at the Pontifical Urban University followed by a BaccHe in 1948 at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He was a member of the Order of Saint Basil the Great, also known as the Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat; he served as pastor of churches in western Pennsylvania including St. John the Baptist Greek Catholic Church in Uniontown. He died in Glen Cove, Nassau County, New York.
Pekar was a member of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences formed by Ukrainian émigré scholars in Augsburg, Germany, as an academy in exile; the Shevchenko Scientific Society, and the faculty of the Ukrainian Catholic University.
On 1 March 2018, Uzhhorod National University held a symposium on Pekar's life and writings entitled "A Life Dedicated to Truth: Hieromonk Athanasius Vasyl Pekar, OSBM".