{{Short description|Ukrainian-Australian activist (1955–2024)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Stefan Romaniw | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|OAM|size=100%}} | image = Stefan Romaniw.jpg | office = | term_start = | term_end = | predecessor = | office2 = First Vice President of the Ukrainian World Congress | term_start2 = 2018 | term_end2 = 26 June 2024 | predecessor2 = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1955|11|12}} | birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2024|6|26|1955|11|12}} | death_place = Warsaw, Poland | alma_mater = | profession = Activist | caption = Romaniw in 2014 | native_name_lang = uk | native_name = {{nobold|Стефан Романів}} }}
'''Stefan Romaniw''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|OAM|size=100%}} ({{langx|uk|Стефан Ількович Романів}}; 12 November 1955 – 26 June 2024) was a<!-- "a Ukrainian" is correct as the letter 'U' is making a consonant sound (yew-krainian)--> Ukrainian-Australian activist who served as the Co-chair of the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ukraine attack: 'Why is this tyrant being allowed to do this?' |url=https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/russia-ukraine-update-chair-of-australian-federation-of-ukrainian-organisations-stefan-romaniw-speaks-out-over-attacks/f79c29b7-3b7e-45e5-a0c1-5ee75562d133 |access-date=8 December 2022 |website=9now.nine.com.au |language=en-AU |archive-date=8 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208004933/https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/russia-ukraine-update-chair-of-australian-federation-of-ukrainian-organisations-stefan-romaniw-speaks-out-over-attacks/f79c29b7-3b7e-45e5-a0c1-5ee75562d133 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Co-Chairperson — Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations |url=https://www.ozeukes.com/about/executive/sromaniw/ |access-date=8 December 2022 |website=www.ozeukes.com |archive-date=8 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208005509/https://www.ozeukes.com/about/executive/sromaniw/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and the First Vice President of the Ukrainian World Congress.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Kuzio |first=Taras |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CqXACQAAQBAJ&dq=Stefan+Romaniw+OUN&pg=PR20 |title=Ukraine: Democratization, Corruption, and the New Russian Imperialism: Democratization, Corruption, and the New Russian Imperialism |date=23 June 2015 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-4408-3503-2 |pages=xx |language=en |access-date=21 June 2022 |archive-date=26 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240626201449/https://books.google.com/books?id=CqXACQAAQBAJ&dq=Stefan+Romaniw+OUN&pg=PR20 |url-status=live }}</ref> According to historian Gregorsz Rossolinski-Liebe, he was also elected leader of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists in 2009.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Rossolinski |first=Grzegorz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6OXJCQAAQBAJ&dq=Stephan+Romaniw&pg=PA467 |title=Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide, and Cult |date=2014 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-3-8382-0684-4 |pages=417 |language=en |quote=In 2009, the Twelfth Great Congress of the OUN elected Stefan Romaniw as leader of the OUN. Both Haidamakha and Romaniw grew up in the diaspora and were recruited to the OUN when they were members of SUM. Like many other civic leaders, Romaniw has also been an activist of multiculturalismm, civil liberties and the right of national self determination. |access-date=21 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240626201513/https://books.google.com/books?id=6OXJCQAAQBAJ&dq=Stephan+Romaniw&pg=PA467#v=onepage&q=Stephan%20Romaniw&f=false |archive-date=26 June 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>
Romaniw was the chairperson of the Victorian Multicultural Commission and Multicultural Arts and has received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM).<ref>{{Cite web |last=State Government of Victoria |first=Australia |date=2019 |title=Stefan Romaniw OAM |url=https://www.vic.gov.au/stefan-romaniw-oam |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126051239/https://www.vic.gov.au/stefan-romaniw-oam |access-date=9 June 2022 |archive-date=26 January 2022 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Stefan Romaniw - Ukrainian World Congress |url=https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/about/leadership/stefan-romaniw/ |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=www.ukrainianworldcongress.org |language=en |archive-date=27 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220927224842/https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/about/leadership/stefan-romaniw/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Romaniw was the head of the OUN-B from 2009<ref name=":1" />{{Better source needed|reason=passing mention|date=December 2022}} to December 2022, when Oleh Medunytsia was unanimously elected to replace him.<ref>{{cite web|author=|title=For the first time, a citizen of Ukraine by birth was elected as the head of the OUN(b)|url=https://www.istpravda.com.ua/short/2022/12/16/162175/|website=Istorychna Pravda|date=16 December 2022|access-date=16 December 2022|lang=Ukrainian|archive-date=16 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216193447/https://www.istpravda.com.ua/short/2022/12/16/162175/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Romaniw died in Warsaw on 26 June 2024, at the age of 68.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tributes for Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations co-chair Stefan Romaniw |url=https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/tributes-for-australian-federation-of-ukrainian-organisations-cochair-stefan-romaniw/news-story/11b3675ea7ec2018ca3597e344d7d527?amp |access-date=10 July 2024 |publisher=Herald Sun |date=26 June 2024}}</ref> A state funeral was held at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of Sts Peter and Paul, in Melbourne, on 12 July.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-12 |title=State Funeral Service for Stefan Romaniw OAM |url=https://www.vic.gov.au/StefanRomaniw |access-date=2024-07-12 |website=www.vic.gov.au |language=en-AU}}</ref>
At the same time Stefan gives a cursus in Estland in september. This could be an error, or not? https://ut.ee/en/lifelong/ukraine-european-frontier
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