The Very Rev. Demetrius Laptuta, longtime pastor of St. Mary\'s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Niagara Falls, NY died Wednesday, Oct.15 in the parish rectory after a long illness. Born in Batavia, Father Laptuta was ordained in the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, Redemptorist Fathers, on May 26, 1945, in Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Philadelphia. Before joining St. Mary\'s, he served as pastor of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Newark, N. J.; Holy Eucharistic Ukrainian Catholic Church in Toronto; and St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in the Town of Kenmore, NY
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