Installation of the Ruling Bishop of Kolomyia-Chernivtsi Eparchy will take place on the third week of Great Lent

Kolomyia-Chernivtsi Eparchy was created on July 12, 1993.  It encompasses the territory of the seven provinces of Ivano-Frankivsk region:  Kolomyia, Verkhovyna, Horodenko, Kosiv, Nadvirniansk, Sniatynsk, Tlumatsk, as well as the city of Chernivtsi and the whole Chernivtsi region.  The first Ruling Hierarch of the new Kolomyia-Chernivtsi Eparchy was Bishop Pavlo (Vasylyk), a confessor of faith, incarcerated for many years in soviet prisons.

As we reported, on February 13, 2014 the Vatican announced that His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych, with the agreement of UGCC Synod of Bishops and in consultation with the Apostolic See, created the UGCC Crimea Exarchate, separating it from the present Odesa-Crimea Exarchate, and named Bishop Vasyl (Ivasiuk), the present Odesa-Crimea Exarch, as the Eparch of UGCC Kolomyia-Chernivtsi.

Bishop Vasyl (Ivasiuk), the newly-appointed Eparch of Kolomyia-Chernivtsi, was born on January 21, 1960 in the village of Dora in Ivano-Frankivsk region.   At first, he studied in the underground Greek-Catholic seminary, and eventually in the Higher Spiritual Seminary in Ternopil and the Papal Gregorian University in Rome, from which in 2003 he received a licentiate in dogmatic theology.

In July 2003 he was appointed the first Exarch of the newly-created UGCC Odesa-Crimea  Exarchate and was consecrated a bishop on September 28^th of that year. 

On May 23, 2013, after the sudden death of Bishop Mykola  (Simkailo), he was appointed the Administrator of the Kolomyia-Chernivtsi Eparchy.

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