| Mykola Bychok | |
| Honorific Suffix: | CSsR |
| Birth Name: | Mykola Petrovych Bychok |
| Birth Date: | 13 February 1980 |
| Birth Place: | Ternopil, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Church: | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
| Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne | |
| Appointed: | 15 January 2020 |
| Ordination: | 3 May 2005 |
| Ordained By: | Ihor Vozniak |
| Consecration: | 7 June 2020 |
| Consecrated By: | Sviatoslav Shevchuk |
| Predecessor: | Peter Stasiuk |
| Honorific Prefix: | His Eminence |
Mykola Bychok (uk|Микола Бичок; born 13 February 1980) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic prelate who has served as Eparch of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne since 2020. Pope Francis plans to make him a cardinal on 7 December 2024, making him the youngest member of the College of Cardinals. He is a member of the Redemptorists.
Bychok was born in Ternopil in western Ukraine 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.
Following his ordination, Bychok spent time as a missionary at the Mother of Perpetual Help Church 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, New Jersey, part of the Archieparchy of Philadelphia of the Ukrainians.
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.[1] The eparchy's jurisdiction comprises Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania.
On 7 June 2020, the feast of Pentecost in the Julian calendar used by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church at the time, 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.[2] [3]
On 6 October 2024, Pope Francis announced that he plans to make him a cardinal on 8 December 2024,[4] a date that was later changed to 7 December.[5] He will become the youngest member of the College of Cardinals.[6]