Paul Patrick Chomnycky

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**Rt Revd Paul Patrick Chomnycky, O.S.B.M.**
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Denomination	Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Senior posting
See	Eparchy of Stamford
Title	Eparch of Stamford
Period in office	3rd January 2006 — present
Predecessor	Basil Harry Losten
Successor	incumbent
Personal
Date of birth	19 May 1954
Place of birth	Vancouver, Canada

Paul Patrick Chomnycky OSBM was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1954.

Chomnycky was brought up in British Columbia and graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelors 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 the 1st 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.

On the 5th April 2002, he was appointed Apostolic Exarch for Ukrainians in Great Britain and ordained bishop by His Beatitude Lubomyr Cardinal Husar on 11th June 2002. He was also Titular Bishop of Buffada from 5 April 2002 until 3 January 2006.^[1]

Styles of
Paul Patrick Chomnycky

Reference style	The Right Reverend
Spoken style	Your Grace
Religious style	Your Grace
Posthumous style	not applicable

On the 3rd January 2006, he was appointed Eparch of Stamford, becoming the bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford in the United States. The current seat of Apostolic Exarch for Ukrainians in Great Britain is vacant.

1 Views on Ukraine
2 See also
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Views on Ukraine

Chomnycky participated at a protest in November 2004 outside 10 Downing Street, Central London, which was calling for the British Government to support democracy and Yushcenko in Ukraine. ^[2]