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 Kozak the Communist regime abolished the Greek-Catholic Church, and exiled to Siberia. Released from prison on October 1960 and clandestinly continued to serve as priest. On 1983 Fr. Kozak was consecrated to the Episcopate as auxiliary bishop. The principal and single consecrator was clandestine archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk. He died on 9 December 1984. Petro Kozak Petro Kozak, C.Ss.R. (; 4 April 1911 – 9 December 1984) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic clandestine hierarch. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv from 1983 to 1984. Born in Loshniv, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day – Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine) in 1911