New auxiliary bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk

Today Vatican Information Service informed that His Holiness Pope Francis gave his assent to the election by the Synod of Bishops of the Greek-Catholic Ukrainian Church of Fr. Yosafat Moshchych as auxiliary of the archieparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk.

The bishop-elect was born in Stariy Rozdil, Ukraine in 1976 and was ordained in 1999. He holds a licentiate in moral theology from the Alphonsianum Academy, Rome, and has served as Superior General of the missionary congregation of St. Andrew the Apostle. He is currently “sincellus” for laical aggregations in the archieparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk.