Father was born on May 23, 1941 in Lesajsk, Western Ukraine, now Poland.  His parents, Wasyl Struc, born in Lviv, mother Maria, born in Stare Misto near Lesjsk.  The family came to U.S.A. from Austria after W.W. II and settled in Chicago.  In 1956, at age 15, he came to Canada for his high school studies and Novitiate with the Basilian Fathers in Mundare, Alberta.  In 1961 studied philosophy and theology at St. Paul’s University in Ottawa. 1965-68 studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy, earning a S.T.B Degree in Theology.  Ordained to the Holy Priesthood on June 11, 1969 by Bishop Isidore Borecky and assigned to St. John the Baptist Church in Ottawa.  In 1970 Father was sent to the U.S.A. where he served 35 years in the Stamford Eparchy.  He was Assistant in two parishes, Pastor in five parishes, also Dean of the Buffalo and Boston Deaneries.  In 1994, Father was on loan to the Philadelphia Archeparchy until 2001.  Bishop Basil Losten recalled Father to Stamford where he worked part-time in the Chancery Office, and was appointed Spiritual Director of St. Basil’s Seminary in Stamford, Connecticut.  In 2005, at the request of Bishop Stephen Chmilar, Father Marian returned to priestly ministry in Canada.  His temporary assignments since his return to Canada were in St. John’s, Brantford, ON; Holy Protection Monastery, Orangeville, ON, Holy Protection in Thunder Bay, ON and now St. Mary’s, Sudbury, ON.