Bishop Mykhaylo Bubniy,

C.Ss.R. The Redemptorists officially named the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer ( la, links=no, Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris), abbreviated CSsR,is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men (priests and brother ...

( uk, Михайло Бубній; born 16 September 1970 in Khlivchany,

Sokal Raion Sokal ( uk, Сокаль, romanized: ''Sokal'') is a city located on the Bug River in Chervonohrad Raion, Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sokal urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population is approx ...

Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast ( uk, Льві́вська о́бласть, translit=Lvivska oblast, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna ( uk, Льві́вщина, ), ). The name of each oblast is a wikt:Appendix:Glossary#relational, relational adjective—in Englis ...

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

) is a

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hierarch as an Archiepiscopal Exarch of Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Odessa, Archiepiscopal Administrator of Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Krym and Titular Bishop of Thubursicum-Bure since 2 April 2014. Coat of arms of Mykhaylo Bubniy

Life

Bishop Bubniy was born in the family of Ivan Bubniy in

, where he grew up. After graduation of the school education, he joined the

Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer The Redemptorists officially named the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer ( la, links=no, Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris), abbreviated CSsR,is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men (priests and brother ...

in 1991. In the Congregation he made a

profession A profession is a field of work that has been successfully ''professionalized''. It can be defined as a disciplined group of individuals, '' professionals'', who adhere to ethical standards and who hold themselves out as, and are accepted by ...

on 19 August 1992 and a solemn profession on 7 April 1996. Bubniy 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 19 August 1997, after completed philosophical and theological studies in the Major Redemptorists Theological Seminary in

Tuchów Tuchów is a town in Tarnów County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with a population of 6,476 (2004). It lies on the ''Biała'' river, at the height of above sea level. The distance to Kraków is , and to the border with Slovakia, approxim ...

, Poland and Pontifical Theological Academy in

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, Poland. After returning from studies in

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, he had a various pastoral assignments and served as professor, superior and finally, as a Rector of the Major Theological Redemptorists Institute in Lviv, Ukraine from 2005 until 2007, and then continued his studies in the

Pontifical Oriental Institute The Pontifical Oriental Institute, also known as the Orientale, is a Catholic institution of higher education located in Rome and focusing on Eastern Christianity. The plan of creating a school of higher learning for Eastern Christianity had been ...

in Rome with a Licentiate of the

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degree. On 13 February 2014 Fr. Bubniy was appointed and on 7 April 2014 was

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to the

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as the second Archiepiscopal Exarch of the Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Odessa and the Titular Bishop of Thubursicum-Bure. In the same time he was appointed as an Archiepiscopal Administrator of the new created Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Krym. The principal

consecrator A consecrator is a bishop who ordains someone to the episcopacy. A co-consecrator is someone who assists the consecrator bishop in the act of ordaining a new bishop. The terms are used in the canon law of the Catholic Church, Lutheran Churche ...

was

Sviatoslav Shevchuk Sviatoslav Shevchuk ( uk, Святосла́в Шевчу́к; born 5 May 1970 in Stryi, Ukrainian SSR) has been the Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) since 25 March 2011, serving as the Eastern Catholic church's le ...

, the Head of the

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References

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