Diocese of Kolomyia, Ukraine 🇺🇦 (Ukrainian Rite)

Continent: East Europe

Rite: Ukrainian (Byzantine)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Kolomyia / Kolomyien(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Ivano-Frankivsk

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

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History

1993.04.20: Established as Diocese of Kolomyia–Chernivtsi / Kolomyien(sis)–Chernivcen(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Ivano-Frankivsk)
2004.12.06: Became suffragan of Kyiv
2011.11.21: Became suffragan of Ivano-Frankivsk
2017.09.12: Renamed as Diocese of Kolomyia / Kolomyien(sis) (Latin) (lost territory to establish Diocese of Chernivtsi)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2014.02.13 – ...):	Bishop Vasyl Ivasyuk (65)
Auxiliary Bishop (2023.07.12 – ...):	Bishop Petro Holiney (52) Titular Bishop of Abrittum

Ordinaries

Bishops of Kolomyia (Ukrainian Rite)

Bishop Vasyl Ivasyuk (65)
(2014.02.13 – ...)

Bishop of Kolomyia of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)

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Born:	1960.01.21 (Dora, Ukraine)
Ordained Priest:	1989.08.16
Consecrated Bishop:	2003.09.28

Priest of Lviv–Halyč–Kamyanets of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (1989.08.16 – 2003.07.28)

Titular Bishop of Benda (2003.07.28 – 2014.02.13)

Archiepiscopal Exarch of Odessa–Krym of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2003.07.28 – 2014.02.13)

Patriarchal Administrator of Kolomyia–Chernivtsi of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2013.05.22 – 2014.02.13)

Bishop of Kolomyia of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2014.02.13 – ...)

Bishops of Kolomyia–Chernivtsi (Ukrainian Rite)

Bishop Vasyl Ivasyuk (65)
(Patriarchal Administrator 2013.05.22 – 2014.02.13)

Bishop Mykola Simkaylo
(2005.06.02 – 2013.05.21)

Born:	1952.11.21 (Karaganda, Kazakhstan)
Ordained Priest:	1974.05.15
Consecrated Bishop:	2005.07.12
Died:	2013.05.21 († 60)

Priest of Ivano-Frankivsk of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (1974.05.15 – 2005.06.02)

Bishop of Kolomyia–Chernivtsi of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) ([2005.06.02] 2005.06.02 – 2013.05.21)

Bishop Volodymyr Viytyshyn (66) (later Archbishop)
(2004.12.12 – 2005.06.02)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Ivano-Frankivsk of the Ukrainians (Ukraine)

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Born:	1959.11.09 (Demydivka, Ukraine)
Ordained Priest:	1982.05.27
Consecrated Bishop:	2003.07.15

Priest of Ivano-Frankivsk of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (1982.05.27 – 2003.05.13)

Coadjutor Bishop of Kolomyia–Chernivtsi of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2003.05.13 – 2004.12.12)

Bishop of Kolomyia–Chernivtsi of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2004.12.12 – 2005.06.02)

Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2005.06.02 – 2011.11.21)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Ivano-Frankivsk of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (2011.11.21 – ...)

Bishop Pavlo Vasylyk
(1993.04.20 – 2004.12.12)

Born:	1926.08.08 (Boryslavka, Poland)
Ordained Priest:	1956.11.18
Consecrated Bishop:	1974.05.01
Died:	2004.12.12 († 78)

Titular Bishop of Plotinopolis (1991.01.16 – 1993.04.20)

Auxiliary Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (1991.01.16 – 1993.04.20)

Bishop of Kolomyia–Chernivtsi of the Ukrainians (Ukraine) (1993.04.20 – 2004.12.12)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Volodymyr Viytyshyn (66) (later Archbishop) (2003.05.13 – 2004.12.12)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Kolomyia (Коломия), Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Former Cathedral: Former Cathedral of St. Michael, Kolomyia (Коломия), Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Pro-Cathedral: Pro-Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Nadvirna (Надвірна), Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
World Heritage Site (now Orthodox church): Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Nyzhnii Verbizh (Нижній Вербіж), Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Maramureş (↙), Mukacheve (←), Ivano-Frankivsk (↑), Bučač (↗), Chernivtsi (→)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 14,000 km²

Population: 229,000 Catholics (19.7% of 1,164,715 total)

Pastoral Centres: 230 parishes

Personnel: 254 priests (diocesan), 14 seminarians

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