Paul Patrick Chomnycky

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Rt Revd Paul Patrick Chomnycky, O.S.B.M.
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
Coat of arms of Eparch Paul Patrick Chomnycky
Coat of arms of Eparch Paul Patrick Chomnycky

Paul Patrick Chomnycky, OSBM, was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1954, 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 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.[2]

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.

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Styles of
Paul Patrick Chomnycky
Reference style The Right Reverend
Spoken style Your Grace
Religious style Your Grace
Posthumous style not applicable


Chomnycky participated at a protest in November 2004 near the Ukrainian Embassy, in Holland Park Avenue, west London, which was calling for the British Government to support democracy and Yushcenko in Ukraine. [3]

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Jaksic, Vesna, "A new leader: Bishop installed as head of Ukrainian Catholics in area", The Advocate of Stamford, Connecticut, February 21, 2006
  2. ^ Catholic Hierarchy
  3. ^ Brama News from and about Ukraine & Ukrainians: Dec 1, 2004, 1:00 am ET – Ukrainians color London blue, yellow - and orange — By Tony Leliw

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Preceded by
Michael Kuchmiak		 Apostolic Exarch for Ukrainians in Great Britain
2002—2006		 Succeeded by
vacant
Preceded by
Basil H. Losten		 Ukrainian Catholic Eparch of Stamford
2006 – present		 Incumbent
v • d • e
Hierarchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Major Archbishop
Metropolitan Archeparchs
Kyiv – Vyshhorod | Stefan Soroka (Philadelphia) | Jan Martyniak (Przemyśl – Warsaw) | Lawrence Huculak (Winnipeg)
Archeparchs
Ihor Vozniak (Lviv)
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vacant (Buchach) | David Motiuk (Edmonton) | Ivano-Frankivsk / Stanislaviv | Mykola Simkaylo (Kolomyia – Chernivtsi) | Kenneth Nowakowski (New Westminster) | Robert Moskal (Saint Josaphat in Parma) | Richard Seminack (Saint Nicholas of Chicago) | Peter Stasiuk (Saints Peter and Paul of Australia) | Julian Voronovsky (Sambir – Drohobych) | Miguel Mykycej (Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires) | Valdomiro Koubetch (São João Batista em Curitiba) | Bryan Bayda (Saskatoon) | Mychajlo Koltun (Sokal – Zhovkva) | Paul Patrick Chomnycky (Stamford) | Julian Gbur (Stryl) | Vasyl Semeniuk (Ternopil – Zboriv) | Stephen Chmilar (Toronto and Eastern Canada) | Włodzimierz Juszczak (Wrocław – Gdańsk)
Apostolic Exarchs
Archiepiscopal Exarchs
Stephan Meniok (Donetsk – Kharkiv) | Josaphat Hovera (Lutsk) | Vasyl Ivasiuk (Odessa – Krym)
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