Petros (pelican) given the name "Petros". Petros (pelican) Petros was a great white pelican. It was the official mascot of the Greek island of Mykonos. In 1958, a wounded pelican was found off the coast of Mykonos by a local fisherman. The pelican was nursed to health and remained on the island supported by locals. It soon adopted the name "Petros", as a joke among locals, as "petro" in Greek means "rock" or "stone", but metaphorically "old and grumpy". Petros was hit and killed by a car in December 1985. Subsequently, three new pelicans took up residence around the main town of
Petro Kryk Petro Kryk Bishop Petro Kryk (; born 25 April 1945 in Kobylnica Wołoska, Rzeszów Voivodeship (now Podkarpackie Voivodeship), Poland) is a German Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch as the second Apostolic Exarch of the Apostolic Exarchate in Germany and Scandinavia for the Ukrainians and the Titular Bishop of Castra Martis since 20 November 2000. Bishop Kryk was born in the family of Greek-Catholics Hryhoriy and Anna Kryk in 1945, but during Operation Vistula in the 1947, his family was forced resettlemented, alongside with another Ukrainians in Poland, from ethnical Ukrainian territories to the Recovered Territories in the northern Poland. After graduation