Bishop Jacek Pyl,

O.M.I. The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) is a missionary religious congregation in the Catholic Church. It was founded on January 25, 1816, by Eugène de Mazenod, a French priest born in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France on August 1, ...

( uk, Яцек Пиль; pl, Jacek Pyl; born 17 August 1962 in

Garwolin Garwolin is a town on the Wilga river in eastern Poland, capital of Garwolin County, situated in the southeast part of the Garwolin plateau in Masovian Voivodeship, 62 km southeast of Warsaw, 100 km northwest of Lublin. As of December ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

) is a Polish-born Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, who serves as an Auxiliary bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Odesa-Simferopol The Diocese of Odesa-Simferopol ( la, Odesensis-Sympheropolitanus) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in southern Ukraine and Crimea. A significant part of the Latin Church in Ukraine, it covers an area e ...

and the Titular Bishop of Nova Sinna since 21 October 2006.

Life

Bishop Pyl was born in the Roman-Catholic family in a present-day

Masovian Voivodeship The Masovian Voivodeship, also known as the Mazovia Province ( pl, województwo mazowieckie ) is a voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, with its capital located in the city of Warsaw, which also serves as the capital of the country. The ...

. After graduation of the school education, joined the

Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) is a missionary religious congregation in the Catholic Church. It was founded on January 25, 1816, by Eugène de Mazenod, a French priest born in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France on August 1, ...

in 1977; he made a solemn profession on 8 September 1986, and was ordained as

priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particu ...

on 20 June 1988, after graduation of the Major Missionary Oblates Theological Seminary in Obra, Poland and Theological faculty of the

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań The Adam Mickiewicz University ( pl, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu; Latin: ''Universitas Studiorum Mickiewicziana Posnaniensis'') is a research university in Poznań, Poland. It traces its origins to 1611, when under the Royal Ch ...

. After his ordination he served as an assistant novice master for the Missionary Oblates in

from 1988 until 1990, when he has been transferred to

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

. Fr. Pyl served in the Missionary Oblates parishes in the different regions of Ukraine. When in 1997 was established the Delegature of

in Ukraine, he became the first its Superior until 2006. Also he again served as a Superior of the Delegature a short time in 2012. On 23 November 2012 he was appointed by the

Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI ( la, Benedictus XVI; it, Benedetto XVI; german: link=no, Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, , on 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the Church and the sovereign ...

as the Auxiliary Bishop of the

and

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of Nova Sinna. On 5 January 2013 he was consecrated as bishop by Bishop

Bronislaw Bernacki Bronislaw Bernacki (born September 30, 1944, Murafa, Vinnytsia oblast, Ukraine) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Odesa-Simferopol diocese from 2002 to 2020. Biography He studied at the Catholic Seminary of Riga. Bernacki was ordained to the p ...

and other prelates of the

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. From 2013 he is residing in

Simferopol Simferopol () is the second-largest city in the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula. The city, along with the rest of Crimea, is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine, and is considered the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. However, ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pyl, Jacek 1962 births Living people People from Garwolin County Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań alumni Ukrainian people of Polish descent Polish expatriates in Ukraine 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ukraine