Paul Chomnycky

His Grace The Most Reverend Paul Patrick Chomnycky O.S.B.M.
Eparch of Stamford
Church	Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Metropolis	Philadelphia
Diocese	Stamford
Appointed	January 3, 2006
Installed	February 20, 2006
Predecessor	Basil H. Losten
Orders
Ordination	October 1, 1988 by Jeronim Isidore Chimy
Consecration	June 11, 2002 by Lubomyr Husar, Michael Bzdel and Lawrence Huculak
Personal details
Born	(1954-05-19) 19 May 1954 (age 69) Vancouver, British Columbia
Previous post(s)	Apostolic Exarch for Ukrainians in Great Britain Titular Bishop of Buffada
Motto	Господь мій Пастир

Styles of Paul Patrick Chomnycky
Reference style	His Grace The Most Reverend
Spoken style	His Grace
Religious style	Bishop

Paul Patrick Chomnycky, OSBM (born 19 May 1954) is a bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church and the current bishop of the Diocese of Stamford, Connecticut.

Education

Paul Chomnycky was born in Vancouver, Canada, the son of a Ukrainian-immigrant father and Canadian-born mother (both of whom died in 1996),^[1] and graduated from the University of British Columbia with a bachelor's degree in Commerce in 1980. After working as an accountant for two years, he entered the novitate of the Order of St. Basil the Great, working in the Basilian monastery in New York.

On 1 October 1988, he was ordained as a priest of the Order of St. Basil the Great. Then, he continued with further studies in Philosophy at the University of St. Anselm and the Gregorian University in Rome, receiving a Bachelor's in Sacred Theology in 1990.

Upon his return to Canada, he served briefly as an assistant pastor at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Mundare, Alberta and St. Basil's, Edmonton. Eventually he would return to both parishes as their pastor in 1997 and 2000 and also served as the pastor of St. Mary's Church in Vancouver from 1994 to 1997. During his tenure as pastor at St. Basil's in Edmonton and St. Paul's in Mundare, he was also the superior of the local Basilian monastery.

Bishop Chomnycky also served as the Director of the Basilian Fathers museum in Mundare, a member of the Provincial Council of the Basilian Fathers of Canada, and a member of the college of consultors of the Edmonton Eparchy. He was appointed Exarch for Ukrainian Catholics in Great Britain on April 5, 2002 and consecrated bishop on June 11, 2002 by Cardinal Lubomyr Husar.

See also

References

External links

• Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford Official Site
• The Catholic Church in England and Wales news release on the appointment of Paul Chomnycky as Apostolic Exarch for Ukrainians in Great Britain

Episcopal succession

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Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Hierarchy including Ecclesiastical circumscriptions

Major archeparchy

• Kyiv–Galicia: Sviatoslav Shevchuk

Archeparchies

• Kyiv: Sviatoslav Shevchuk
• Lviv: Ihor Vozniak
• Przemyśl–Warsaw: Eugeniusz Popowicz
• Winnipeg: Lawrence Huculak
• Philadelphia: Borys Gudziak
• Ivano-Frankivsk: Volodymyr Viytyshyn
• Ternopil–Zboriv: Vasyl Semeniuk
• São João Batista em Curitiba: Valdomiro Koubetch

Eparchies

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)

Apostolic exarchates

Germany and Scandinavia	Bohdan Dzyurakh
Italy and San Marino	Dionisio Lachovicz

Archiepiscopal exarchates

• Donetsk: Stepan Meniok
• Kharkiv: Vasyl Tuchapets
• Krym: Mykhaylo Bubniy (Archiepiscopal Administrator)
• Odesa: Mykhaylo Bubniy
• Lutsk: Yosafat Hovera

Apostolic visitors

• Chile: Daniel Kozelinski Netto
• Ireland: Kenneth Nowakowski
• Northern Ireland: Kenneth Nowakowski
• Paraguay: Daniel Kozelinski Netto
• Uruguay: Daniel Kozelinski Netto
• Venezuela: Daniel Kozelinski Netto

Curial and
auxiliary bishops

• Volodymyr Firman (Ternopil–Zboriv)
• Petro Holiney (Kolomyia)
• Volodymyr Hrutsa (Lviv)
• Andriy Khimyak (Kyiv)
• Hryhoriy Komar (Sambir–Drohobych)
• Petro Loza (Sokal–Zhovkva)
• Bohdan Manyshyn (Stryi)
• Teodor Martynyuk (Ternopil–Zboriv)
• Yosyf Milyan (Kyiv)
• Andriy Rabiy (Winnipeg)
• Maksym Ryabukha (Donetsk)
• Mykola Semenyshyn (Ivano-Frankivsk)
• Stepan Sus (Curial Bishop)

Bishops
emeritus

• Jan Martyniak (Metropolitan) (Przemyśl – Warsaw)
• Stefan Soroka (Metropolitan) (Philadelphia)
• Iryney Bilyk (Buchach)
• Stephen Chmilar (Toronto)
• Petro Kryk (Germany and Scandinavia)
• Basil Losten (Stamford)
• Wasyl Medwit (Donetsk)
• Peter Stasiuk (Saints Peter and Paul of Australia)
• Michael Wiwchar (Saskatoon)

Defunct
circumscriptions

Poland	Apostolic Exarchate of Łemkowszczyzna Eparchy of Kholm and Belz Conversion of Chełm Eparchy
Ukraine	Eparchy of Zboriv

Ruthenian Uniate Church

• Eparchy of Suprasl
• Archeparchy of Polotsk
• Eparchy of Turov and Pinsk
• Eparchy of Volodymyr and Brest
• Eparchy of Lutsk and Ostroh
• Archeparchy of Smolensk

Seminaries

• Kyiv
• Lviv
• Drohobych
• Ivano-Frankivsk
• Ternopil
• Rome
• Stamford
• Washington D.C.
• Edmonton
• Curitiba

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