Mykola Bychok

Mykola Bychok CSsR
Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne
Church	Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Appointed	15 January 2020
Predecessor	Peter Stasiuk C.Ss.R.
Orders
Ordination	3 May 2005 (Priest)[1] by Ihor Vozniak
Consecration	7 June 2020 (Bishop)[1] by Sviatoslav Shevchuk
Personal details
Born	Mykola Petrovych Bychok (1980-02-13) 13 February 1980 (age 44) Ternopil, Ukrainian SSR
Coat of arms

Mykola Bychok CSsR (Ukrainian: Микола Бичок; born 13 February 1980) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch as the bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne since June 2020.

Life

Bychok was born in Ternopil in 1980. He joined the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, popularly known as the Redemptorists, in July 1997. His religious training took place in Ukraine and Poland, where he obtained a licentiate in pastoral theology. On 17 August 2003, Bychok took his religious vows, and on 3 May 2005 he was ordained a priest in the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv.^[2]

Following his ordination, Bychok spent time as a missionary at the Mother Church of Perpetual Help in Prokopyevsk, Russia. He latter served as the superior of Saint Joseph's Redemptorists Monastery and pastor of the Mother Parish of Perpetual Help in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. From 2015 to 2020 Bychok served as the vicar of the Ukrainian Catholic parish of Saint John the Baptist in Newark, NJ, part of the Archieparchy of Philadelphia of the Ukrainians.^[2]

On 15 January 2020, he was appointed by Pope Francis as the eparchial bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne, succeeding Peter Stasiuk.^[2]

On 7 June 2020 (the feast of Pentecost in the Julian Calendar), he was consecrated as bishop by Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk and other hierarchs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in St. George's Cathedral, Lviv.^[3]

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Major archeparchyArcheparchiesEparchies

Ukraine	Buchach: Dmytro Hryhorak Chernivtsi: Yosafat Moschych Kamyanets–Podilskyi: Ivan Kulyk Kolomyia: Vasyl Ivasyuk Sambir–Drohobych: Yaroslav Pryriz Sokal–Zhovkva: Mykhaylo Koltun Stryi: Taras Senkiv
Poland	Olsztyn–Gdańsk: Arkadiusz Trochanowski Wrocław–Koszalin: Włodzimierz Juszczak
Canada	Edmonton: David Motiuk Saskatoon: Michael Smolinski New Westminster: Michael Kwiatkowski Toronto and Eastern Canada: Bryan Bayda
United States	Saint Nicholas of Chicago: Venedykt Aleksiychuk Saint Josaphat in Parma: Bohdan Danylo Stamford: Paul Chomnycky
Brazil	Imaculada Conceição in Prudentópolis: Meron Mazur
Argentina	Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires: Daniel Kozelinski Netto
Australia and New Zealand	Saints Peter and Paul of Australia: Mykola Bychok
United Kingdom	Holy Family of London: Kenneth Nowakowski
France, Benelux and Switzerland	Saint Vladimir the Great of Paris: Hlib Lonchyna (Apostolic Administrator)

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emeritusDefunct
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Poland	Apostolic Exarchate of Łemkowszczyzna Eparchy of Kholm and Belz Conversion of Chełm Eparchy
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