Dmytro Hryhorak

Dmytro Hryhorak, O.S.B.M.
Eparchial Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Buchach
Church	Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Appointed	28 July 2007 (as Apostolic Administrator) 23 July 2011 (as Eparchial Bishop)
Predecessor	Iryney Bilyk
Orders
Ordination	25 Oct 1992 (Priest) by Sofron Dmyterko
Consecration	28 Sep 2011 (Bishop) by Sviatoslav Shevchuk
Personal details
Born	Bohdan Dmytrovych Hryhorak (1956-01-01) 1 January 1956 Stanislaviv, Ukrainian SSR

Bishop Dmytro Bohdan Hryhorak, O.S.B.M. (Ukrainian: Дмитро Богдан Григорак; born 1 January 1956) 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.

Coat of arms of Bishop Dmytro Hryhorak

Life

Bishop Hryhorak was born to clandestine Greek-Catholics Dmytro and Mariya (née Prypkhan) Hryhorak. He graduated Oil and Gas Institute in Ivano-Frankivsk (1973–1978) 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 14 October 1989 and a solemn profession on 2 February 1997. But before his solemn profession he was ordained as priest on 25 October 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, in July 2011, he was elected the second Eparchial Bishop of the Eparchy of Buchach. On 28 September 2011 he was consecrated as bishop by Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk and other hierarchs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.