Dmytro Hryhorak


Bishop Dmytro Bohdan Hryhorak, O.S.B.M. is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch as an Eparchial Bishop of Buchach since 23 July 2011. Previously he served as an Apostolic Administrator of the same Eparchy from 28 July 2007 until 21 July 2011.

Life

Bishop Hryhorak was born to clandestine Greek-Catholics Dmytro and Mariya Hryhorak. He graduated Oil and Gas Institute in Ivano-Frankivsk with a diploma in mechanical engineering. Then he worked as design engineer, until joined the Order of Saint Basil the Great in 1989; he had a profession on October 14, 1989 and a solemn profession on February 2, 1997. But before his solemn profession he was ordained as priest on October 25, 1992, while studied in the Theological Academy in Ivano-Frankivsk. Then he continued his studies in the Catholic University of Lublin in Poland with magister degree in Ecclesiology.
During 1992–2007 he served in the different Basilian monasteries as priest, superior, missionary and chaplain.
After the resignation oh the first Eparchial Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Buchach, on 28 July 2007 Fr. Dmytro Hryhorak was appointed by the Pope Benedict XVI as an Apostolic Administrator "ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" and 4 years later, on July, 2011, he was elected the second Eparchial Bishop of the Eparchy of Buchach. On September 28, 2011, he was consecrated as bishop by Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk and other hierarchs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.