Paul Patrick Chomnycky

infobox bishopbiog
name = Rt Revd Paul Patrick Chomnycky, O.S.B.M.


religion = Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
See = Eparchy of Stamford
Title = Eparch of Stamford
Period = 3rd January 2006 — present
Predecessor =Basil Harry Losten
Successor = incumbent
date of birth = 19 May 1954
place of birth = Vancouver, Canada|

Paul Patrick Chomnycky, OSBM, (born 19 May 1954) is a bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

Education

Paul Chomnycky was born in Vancouver, Canada, the son of a Ukrainian-immigrant father and Canadian-born mother (both of whom died in 1996) [Jaksic, Vesna, "A new leader: Bishop installed as head of Ukrainian Catholics in area", "The Advocate" of Stamford, Connecticut, February 21, 2006] 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.

Appointment as Bishop

On the 5th April 2002, he was appointed Apostolic Exarch for Ukrainians in Great Britain and ordained bishop by Lubomyr Cardinal Husar on 11th June 2002. He was also Titular Bishop of Buffada from 5 April 2002 until 3 January 2006. [ [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bchom.html Catholic Hierarchy] ]

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.

Views on Ukraine

infobox bishopstyles
name=Paul Patrick Chomnycky
dipstyle=The Right Reverend
offstyle=Your Grace
relstyle=Your Grace
deathstyle=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. [ [http://www.brama.com/news/press/2004/12/041201leliw_londonrally.html Brama News from and about Ukraine & Ukrainians: Dec 1, 2004, 1:00 am ET – Ukrainians color London blue, yellow - and orange — By Tony Leliw] ]

ee also

*Apostolic Exarchate for Ukrainians

Notes

External links

* [http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/cn/02/020415-3.htm|The Catholic Church in England and Wales news release on the appointment of Paul Chomnycky as Apostolic Exarch for Ukrainians in Great Britain]

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