UGCC Stryj eparchy has auxiliary bishop

Today pope Francis acknowledged the canonical election by the Synod of the Greek Catholic Church of Bishop Taras Senkiv, O.M., as bishop of the eparchy of Stryj, Ukraine, transferring him from the office of apostolic administrator.

He gave his assent to the canonical election by the Synod of the Greek Catholic Church of Fr. Bohdan Manyshyn as auxiliary of the eparchy of Stryj. The bishop-elect was born in Novyj Rozdil, Ukraine in 1972 and was ordained in 2002. He holds a licentiate in pastoral theology from the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, and has served as military chaplain in Lviv and vicar in various parishes in the eparchy of Stryj of the Ukrainians. He is currently protosyncellus of the same eparchy.