Bishop Mykhaylo Bubniy, C.Ss.R. (; born 16 September 1970 in Khlivchany, Sokal Raion,

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) is a

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hierarch as an Archiepiscopal Exarch of

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, Archiepiscopal Administrator of Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Krym and Titular Bishop of Thubursicum-Bure since 2 April 2014.

Life

Bishop Bubniy was born in the family of Ivan Bubniy in Sokal Raion, where he grew up. After graduation of the school education, he joined the

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in 1991. In the Congregation he made a

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on 19 August 1992 and a solemn profession on 7 April 1996. Bubniy was ordained as

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on 19 August 1997, after completed philosophical and theological studies in the Major Redemptorists Theological Seminary in

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, Poland and Pontifical Theological Academy in

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, Poland. After returning from studies in

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, he had a various pastoral assignments and served as professor, superior and finally, as a Rector of the Major Theological Redemptorists Institute in Lviv, Ukraine from 2005 until 2007, and then continued his studies in the

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in Rome with a Licentiate of the

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degree. On 13 February 2014 Fr. Bubniy was appointed and on 7 April 2014 was

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to the

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as the second Archiepiscopal Exarch of the

and the Titular Bishop of Thubursicum-Bure. In the same time he was appointed as an Archiepiscopal Administrator of the new created Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Krym. The principal

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was

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, the Head of the

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