Andriy Khimyak

Bishop Khimyak was born in a Christian family of Mykhaylo and Halyna Khimyak with two children as a younger child in Lviv. After graduation from the school education in Lviv school #44 (1988–1998), he joined the Theological Seminary in Lviv, simultaneously studying in the Ukrainian Catholic University from 1998 until 2005.[1] He was ordained as a deacon on 9 May 2012 and as a priest on 4 November 2012. Both ordinations were made by Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk for the Archeparchy of Kyiv in the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv.[2]

Fr. Khimyak continued his studies in Rome, Italy, where he attended the Pontifical Oriental Institute (2005–2008), receiving a licentiate degree in the liturgical theology. After returning to Ukraine, he served as assistant to the Secretary of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (2009–2021) and a lecturer in the Three Saint Hierarchs Major Theological Seminary in Kyiv (2011–2023).[1]

In April 2021 he was appointed as the Secretary of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church,[1] when the previous Secretary, Bishop Bohdan Dzyurakh was appointed as the Apostolic Exarch of the Ukrainian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Germany and Scandinavia.

On 3 November 2022, he was confirmed by Pope Francis as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Kyiv and appointed as a Titular Bishop of Cuicul.[3] He was consecrated as a bishop by Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk and co-consecrators: bishop Bohdan Dzyurakh and bishop Stepan Sus in the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv on 19 February 2023.[2]