Lubomyr Huzar, an ethnic Ukrainian, was born in Lviv (then in Poland) in 1933.

In 1949 he emigrated to the United States. He was ordained a priest in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1958, following studies in a seminary and the Catholic University of America in Washington. Following his ordination, he earned a master's degree in philosophy from Fordham University in New York.

After moving to Rome to earn a doctorate in theology at Urbanian University, Husar became a Studite monk.

In 1974, he was elected superior of the Studite monastery at Grottaferrata, near Rome.

Lubomyr Huzar moved to Ukraine in 1992, and was consecrated as bishop in 1995 and elected auxiliary bishop of Lviv in 1996.

Following the death of Metropolitan Myroslav Cardinal Lubachivskyy, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, in 2000, Husar was appointed administrator of the Lviv Archdiocese.

In January 2001 Husar was elected head the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and nominated cardinal by the pope.