Mykola Semenyshyn

Bishop Semenyshyn was born in a family with three children as a middle child in the village Hlyboke (until 2018 it was named Hlyboka) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. After graduation from the school education in Hlyboke and Bohorodchany, he joined the Major Theological Seminary in Ivano-Frankivsk, where completed his philosophical and theological studies from 1999 until 2005.[1] He was ordained as a deacon on 25 November 2004 and as a priest on 29 May 2005. Both ordinations were made by Bishop Sofron Mudry for then the Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk.[2]

Fr. Semenyshyn continued his studies in Rome, Italy, where he attended the Pontifical Institute of Spirituality Teresianum (2005–2008), receiving a licentiate degree in spiritual theology. During 2009–2011 he worked as a parish priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pinerolo for the faithful of the Latin and Ukrainian rites. After returning to Ukraine in 2011 he served as vice rector of Ivano-Frankivsk Major Theological Seminary (2011–2013), personal assistant to Cardinal Lubomyr Husar (2013–2017), and spiritual director of the Three Saint Hierarchs Major Theological Seminary in Kyiv (2017–2023).[1]

On 27 October 2022 he was confirmed by Pope Francis as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk and appointed as a Titular Bishop of Iunca in Mauretania.[3] He was consecrated as a bishop by Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk and co-consecrators: metropolitan Volodymyr Viytyshyn and bishop Bohdan Dzyurakh in the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Ivano-Frankivsk on 15 February 2023.[2]