vatican.va - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the apostolic exarchate for Ukrainian Catholic faithful of Byzantine rite resident in Italy, presented by Bishop Paulo Dionisio Lachovicz, O.S.B.M., and has appointed Bishop Hryhoriy Komar, until now auxiliary bishop of the eparchy of Sambir-Drohobych, Ukraine, as apostolic administrator sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of the same exarchate.
Curriculum vitae
Bishop Hryhoriy Komar was born on 19 June 1976 in Ukraine, in Letnya, in the eparchy of Sambir-Drohobych.
He attended the major seminary of Ivano-Frankivsk, and was ordained a priest in the eparchy of Sambir-Drohobych on 22 April 2001.
After ordination, he first served as collaborator in the major seminary of Ivano-Frankivsk and pastoral cooperator of the Most Holy Trinity in the same city. He was awarded a licentiate in Oriental ecclesiastical sciences from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome (2003), and went on to hold the roles of vice rector, bursar and lecturer in the major seminary of Sambir-Drohobych, collaborating at the same time with various parishes in Stebnyk and Drohobych.
In March 2012 he was appointed protosyncellus of the eparchy.
On 25 June 2014 he was elected auxiliary bishop of the eparchy of Sambir-Drohobych and, with pontifical assent, was assigned the titular see of Acci; he received episcopal ordination the following 22 August in the Cathedral of Sambir-Drohobych.