Mykola Simkaylo

Mykola Simkaylo (b.1952, Kazakhstan) has been exarch of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kolomyia – Chernivtsi in Ukraine since 2 June, 2005.

Views on ecumenism

Bishop Simkaylo is known to be a strong supporter of Christian ecumenism. Speaking to the charity Aid to the Church in Need during a visit, he praised President Yushchenko "personally acting as a catalyst to reconcile the various factions of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine", as well as Major Archbishop Cardinal Lubomyr Husar. [1]

Citations

  1. ^ UKRAINE: "Ut unum sint“ is our goal, Greek Catholic Bishop says [1]

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Preceded by
Volodymyr Viytyshyn		 Eparch of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kolomyia – Chernivtsi
2005–present		 Incumbent
Major Archbishop
Metropolitan Archeparchs
Archeparchs
Eparchs
vacant (Buchach) | David Motiuk (Edmonton) | Volodymyr Vijtyshyn (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) | vacant (Stryi) | 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 – Crimea)