Bishop Vitaliy Skomarovskyi ( uk, Віталій Скомаровський; ''pol. Witalij Skomarowski''; born 30 December 1963 in Berdychiv,

Zhytomyr Oblast Zhytomyr Oblast ( uk, Жито́мирська о́бласть, translit=Zhytomyrska oblast), also referred to as Zhytomyrshchyna ( uk, Жито́мирщина}) is an oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. The administrative center of the obla ...

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

) is a Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate as the diocesan bishop of

Lutsk Lutsk ( uk, Луцьк, translit=Lutsk}, ; pl, Łuck ; yi, לוצק, Lutzk) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Volyn Oblast (province) and the administrative center of the surrounding Lu ...

since 12 April 2014. Previously he served as the titular bishop of Bencenna and auxiliary bishop of

Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr ( la, Dioecesis Kioviensis-Zytomeriensis) is a suffragan diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in Ukraine in ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins. ...

since 7 April 2003 until 12 April 2014 and as an apostolic administrator of the same diocese from 31 May 2016 until 30 April 2017.

Life

Bishop Skomarovskyi was born in the Polish Roman-Catholic family in

. After graduation of the school education in his native town, he graduated a medical college, made a compulsory service in the

Soviet Army uk, Радянська армія , image = File:Communist star with golden border and red rims.svg , alt = , caption = Emblem of the Soviet Army , start_date ...

and subsequently joined the Major Theological Seminary in Riga, Latvia. He was ordained as

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on May 27, 1990, after completed his philosophical and theological study. After his returning to Ukraine in 1990, Fr. Skomarovskyi performed such ministries: a parish vicar in Berdychiv (1990–1991), bishop's secretary and parish vicar in

Zhytomyr Zhytomyr ( uk, Жито́мир, translit=Zhytomyr ; russian: Жито́мир, Zhitomir ; pl, Żytomierz ; yi, זשיטאָמיר, Zhitomir; german: Schytomyr ) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the administrative ...

(1991–1992), parish priest in

Sumy Sumy ( uk, Суми ) is a city of regional significance in Ukraine, and the capital of Sumy Oblast. The city is situated on the banks of the Psel River in northeastern Ukraine with a population of according to the 2021 census, making it the 23 ...

(1992–1995), diocesan chancellor (1995–1998) and the rector of the St. Sophia Cathedral in

(1998–2000). In 2000 he was appointed as vice-rector and in 2002 – as the rector of the Major Theological Latin Seminary in

Vorzel Vorzel ( uk, Во́рзель) is an urban-type settlement in Bucha Raion, Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. It belongs to Bucha urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: It is home to Scripture Union's International Youth Camp. History ...

until 2011. On April 7, 2003, he was appointed by the

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

as the auxiliary bishop of the

and

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of Bencenna. On June 7, 2003, he was consecrated as bishop by Cardinal

Marian Jaworski Marian Franciszek Jaworski ( uk, Мар'ян Францішек Яворський, 21 August 1926 – 5 September 2020) was a Cardinal Priest and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins, Archbishop of Lviv of the Latins in the Roman ...

and other prelates of the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Skomarovskyi, Vitaliy 1963 births Living people People from Berdychiv Ukrainian people of Polish descent 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ukraine Roman Catholic bishops of Kyiv