Andriy Khimyak

Andriy Khimyak
Titular Bishop of Cuicul, Auxiliary Bishop of Archeparchy of Kyiv
Church	Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Appointed	3 November 2022
Other post(s)	Secretary of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC (since 2021)
Previous post(s)	Assistant Secretary of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC (2009–2021)
Orders
Ordination	4 November 2012 (Priest) by Sviatoslav Shevchuk
Consecration	19 February 2023 (Bishop) by Sviatoslav Shevchuk
Personal details
Born	Andriy Mykhaylovych Khimyak (1981-04-13) 13 April 1981 (age 43) Lviv, Ukrainian SSR
Denomination	Ukrainian Greek Catholic
Motto	Мир Вам (Ukrainian for "Peace be unto you")
Coat of arms

Bishop Andriy Khimyak (Ukrainian: Андрій Хім'як; born 13 April 1981) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch as Titular Bishop of Cuicul and Auxiliary Bishop of the Archeparchy of Kyiv since 3 November 2022.

Bishop Khimyak was born in a Christian family of Mykhaylo and Halyna Khimyak with two children as a younger child in Lviv. After graduation from the school education in Lviv school #44 (1988–1998), he joined the Theological Seminary in Lviv, simultaneously studying in the Ukrainian Catholic University from 1998 until 2005.^[1] He was ordained as a deacon on 9 May 2012 and as a priest on 4 November 2012. Both ordinations were made by Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk for the Archeparchy of Kyiv in the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv.^[2]

Fr. Khimyak continued his studies in Rome, Italy, where he attended the Pontifical Oriental Institute (2005–2008), receiving a licentiate degree in the liturgical theology. After returning to Ukraine, he served as assistant to the Secretary of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (2009–2021) and a lecturer in the Three Saint Hierarchs Major Theological Seminary in Kyiv (2011–2023).^[1]

In April 2021 he was appointed as the Secretary of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church,^[1] when the previous Secretary, Bishop Bohdan Dzyurakh was appointed as the Apostolic Exarch of the Ukrainian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Germany and Scandinavia.

On 3 November 2022, he was confirmed by Pope Francis as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Kyiv and appointed as a Titular Bishop of Cuicul.^[3] He was consecrated as a bishop by Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk and co-consecrators: bishop Bohdan Dzyurakh and bishop Stepan Sus in the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv on 19 February 2023.^[2]