The Catholic bishops of Ukraine divide into 2 different conferences. There is the Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops in Ukraine ( Ukrainian: Конференція Римо-Католицьких Єпископів України,

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: Conferentia episcoporum Ucrainae) and there is the Synod of Bishops of Ukrainian Catholic Church (

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) (

: Synod Ecclesiae Ucrainae Catholic (bycantini)). Both conferences are a member of the

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The Synod

President of the Ukrainian Catholic Church is His Beatitude

Sviatoslav Shevchuk Sviatoslav Shevchuk (; born 5 May 1970 in Stryi, Ukrainian SSR) is a Catholic Church in Ukraine, Ukrainian Catholic prelate who has served as the Ukrainian Catholic Major Archeparchy of Kyiv–Galicia, Major Archbishop of Kyiv–Galicia and P ...

, Archbishop and Metropolitan of Kyiv in Ukraine.

The Conference of Roman Catholic bishops in Ukraine

Bureau

President: Vitalii Skomarovskyi, Diocesan Bishop of Diocese of Lutsk. Vitalii Kryvytskyi is the Vice President, and Eduard Kava is the Secretary.

Secretaries and commissions

* Commission for Family Marian Buczek, coadjutor bishop of Lviv * Commission for religious women's orders, Leon Malyi, Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv * Commission for priestly vocation,

Jan Purwinski Bishop Jan Purwinski or Yan Purvinskyi (; ; ; 19 November 1934 – 6 April 2021) was a Latvian-born Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Diocesan Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr, Kyiv–Zhytomyr since 16 January 199 ...

, Emeritus Bishop of Kyiv and Zhytomyr * Commission for charitable and philanthropic support,

Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk, O.F.M. (, ''pol. Stanisław Szyrokoradiuk''; born 23 June 1956) is a Ukrainian prelate of the Catholic Church who became Bishop of Odesa-Simferopol since February 2020 after a year as Coadjutor Bishop there. He was Bisho ...

, OFM, Auxiliary Bishop of Kyiv and Zhytomyr * Commission for Public Relations and Mass Media, Vitalii Skomarovskyi, Auxiliary Bishop of Kyiv and Zhytomyr * Commission for Catechesis,

Leon Dubrawski Maximilian Leon Dubrawski (; born 1 July 1949) is the Roman Catholic bishop of Kamianets-Podilskyi. Life Dubrawski was born near Zhytomyr, present day Ukraine. In 1978 he entered the seminary in Riga. On 31 August 1982 he joined the Franciscan Or ...

, OFM, Bishop of Kamjanets-Podilskyi * Commission for Religious Order of men,

Stanislaw Padewski Stanislaw Padewski, OFMCap (born18 September 1932 – 29 January 2017) was a Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to priesthood in 1957, Padewski served as auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi] from 1995 to 1998 and for the Ro ...

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, Emeritus Bishop of Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia * Commission on Environment and Tourism,

Antal Majnek Antal Majnek, OFM (November 18, 1951 in Budapest, Hungary) is the Roman Catholic bishop emeritus of the diocese of Mukachevo. Biography In 1977 he joined the Franciscan Order in Hungary. On April 17, 1982 Majnek was ordained priest in Budapest. ...

, OFM, Bishop of Mukachevo * Commission for the faith,

Bronislaw Bernacki Bronislaw Bernacki (; 30 September 1944 – 12 November 2024) was a Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, who served as the first Diocesan Bishop of Odesa-Simferopol from 2002 to 2020. Biography Bronislaw Bernacki was born in Murafa, Vinnytsia Obl ...

, Bishop of Odesa and Simferopol

References

External links

* http://www.rkc.lviv.ua/index.php * http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/conference/214.htm * http://ecclesia-catholica.org.ua/ {{Episcopal Conferences in Europe, state=collapsed

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...