Ivan Kulyk (bishop)
Bishop Ivan Kulyk is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch as the first Eparchial Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi since 10 September 2019.
Life
Bishop Kulyk, was born in Perevoloka, Buchach Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukrainian SSR and after graduating from the school, joined the Major Theological Seminary in Ternopil in 1997 and then continued his studies at the Catholic University of Lublin in Poland. After returning to Ukraine, he was ordained as a priest on 8 May 2005 for the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ternopil, and during 2005–2009 he attended Patristic Institute Augustinianum in Rome, Italy, receiving a licentiate degree in patristic theology.At the same time, while studying in Rome, from 2006–2009, he served as a parish priest in different Ukrainian Catholic communities in Italy and in 2009 was appointed as a parish priest of Santi Sergio e Bacco.
On 10 September 2019, his election by the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church as the first eparchial bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Ukraine, was confirmed by Pope Francis. On 1 December 2019, he was consecrated as bishop by Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk and other hierarchs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the Nativity of Mary Cathedral in Khmelnytskyi.