Pope Francis grants assent for erection of new Eparchy
Bishop Yasafat Moshchych was elected as the first bishop of the new Eparchy of Chernivtsi by the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church.- RV |
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has granted
his assent to the decision of the Synod of Bishops of
the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church to erect the Eparchy
of Chernivtsi, with its seat in the same city and with territory taken from
the Eparchy of Kolomyia- Chernivtsi, making it a suffragan of the Metropolitan
see of Ivano-Frankivsk.
The Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church
has elected as the first bishop of the Eparchy of Chernivtsi Bishop Yosafat
Moshchych, C.M.S.A.A., currently titular bishop of Pulcheriopoli and
auxiliary of Ivano-Frankivsk.
Bishop Yosafat Moshchych
Bishop Yosafat Moshchych was born on 16 September 1976 in
Stariy Rozdil, in the region of Lviv.
He received his priestly formation at the major seminary of
Ivano-Frankivsk and was ordained a priest on 26 September 1999. During his last
years at the seminary, he also began his novitiate at the Missionary
Congregation of Saint Andrew the Apostle, of eparchial right. In 2002 he gave
his perpetual vows in the aforementioned religious Institute.
In the years 2000 to 2002 he continued his studies at the
Alphonsianum Academy in Rome, where he obtained his licentiate in moral
theology.
In 2003 he followed the preparatory course for vocational
formators of consecrated life at the Faculty of Science of Education of the
Pontifical Salesian University.
Upon returning to his country, he devoted himself to the
activities of evangelisation and missionary and spiritual formation. He served
as superior general of the Missionary Congregation of Saint Andrew the Apostle
and head of evangelisation activities and the pastoral care of migrants in the
Archeparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk and syncellus for the lay associations of the
same ecclesiastical circumscription.
He was elected as auxiliary bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and
received the episcopal chirotony on 3 August 2014.
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