Mykola Bychok Explained

Mykola Bychok
Honorific Suffix:CSsR
Birth Name:Mykola Petrovych Bychok
Birth Date:13 February 1980
Birth Place:Ternopil, Ukrainian SSR
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 (Priest)[1]
Ordained By:Ihor Vozniak
Consecration:7 June 2020 (Bishop)
Consecrated By:Sviatoslav Shevchuk
Predecessor:Peter Stasiuk C.Ss.R.

Mykola Bychok (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.

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.

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bishop Mykola Bychok, C.Ss.R.. Catholic Hierarchy. 2 October 2020.
  2. Web site: Resignation of bishop of the eparchy of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne of the Ukrainians, Australia, and appointment of successor. Vatican Press. 15 January 2020. 2 October 2020.
  3. Web site: Axios! His Beatitude Sviatoslav ordained Mykola Bychok a new bishop. 8 June 2020. 2 October 2020. Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.