Mykola Simkaylo

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Mykola Simkaylo
Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kolomyia – Chernivtsi
Church	Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Appointed	2 June 2005
Predecessor	Volodymyr Viytyshyn
Successor	Vacant
Orders
Ordination	15 May 1974 (Priest) by Pavlo Vasylyk
Consecration	12 July 2005 (Bishop) by Lubomyr Husar
Personal details
Birth name	Mykola Mykhaylovych Simkaylo
Born	21 November 1952 Karaganda, Kazakh SSR
Died	21 May 2013(2013-05-21) (aged 60) Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine

Mykola Simkaylo (born 21 November 1952, Kazakhstan - d. 21 May 2013) was eparch of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kolomyia – Chernivtsi in Ukraine since 2 June 2005 until his death.

Views on ecumenism

Bishop Simkaylo was 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

↑ UKRAINE: "Ut unum sint“ is our goal, Greek Catholic Bishop says

External links

Preceded by Volodymyr Viytyshyn	Eparch of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kolomyia – Chernivtsi 2005—2013	Succeeded by vacant

v t e Hierarchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Major Archbishop	Sviatoslav Shevchuk (Kyiv-Halych)

Metropolitan Archeparchs	Sviatoslav Shevchuk (Kyiv) Stefan Soroka (Philadelphia) Jan Martyniak (Przemyśl – Warsaw) Lawrence Daniel Huculak (Winnipeg) Ihor Vozniak (Lviv) Volodymyr Vijtyshyn (Ivano-Frankivsk) Vasyl Semeniuk (Ternopil – Zboriv)

Eparchs	Demetrius Hryhorak (Buchach) David Motiuk (Edmonton) Hlib Lonchyna (Holy Family of London) vacant (Kolomyia – Chernivtsi) Kenneth Nowakowski (New Westminster) vacant (Saint Josaphat in Parma) Richard Seminack (Saint Nicholas of Chicago) Borys Gudziak (Saint Wladimir-Le-Grand de Paris) Peter Stasiuk (Saints Peter and Paul of Australia) Yaroslav Pryriz (Sambir – Drohobych) vacant (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) Stephen Chmilar (Toronto and Eastern Canada) Włodzimierz Juszczak (Wrocław – Gdańsk)

Apostolic Exarchs	Piotr Kryk (Germany and Scandinavia)

Archiepiscopal Exarchs	Stephan Meniok (Donetsk – Kharkiv) Josaphat Hovera (Lutsk) Vasyl Ivasiuk (Odessa – Crimea)

Persondata
Name	Simkaylo, Mykola
Alternative names
Short description	Ukrainian bishop
Date of birth	21 November 1952
Place of birth	Karaganda, Kazakh SSR
Date of death	21 May 2013
Place of death	Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine

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