Vasyl Tuchapets
Vasyl Volodymyr Tuchapets OSBM is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch as an Archiepiscopal Exarch of Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kharkiv and Titular Bishop of Centuriones since 2 April 2014.Life
Vasyl Volodymyr Tuchapets was born in the family of Vasyl and Kateryna Tuchapets in Yavoriv, where he grew up. After graduation of the school education, he graduated the technical college #14 in Ivano-Frankivsk and made a compulsory service in the Soviet Army. He also studied an architecture in the Lviv Polytechnic. After graduation of the school education he joined a clandestine theological seminary.
During all this time he was a clandestine member of the Order of Saint Basil the Great from November 10, 1986, where he had a profession on October 6, 1991 and a solemn profession on December 29, 1996. Tuchapets was ordained as priest on July 12, 1997, after completed theological studies in Pontifical Theological Faculty in Warsaw. Then he continued his studies with a licentiate degree in patrology.
After returning from studies in Poland, he had a various pastoral assignments and served as professor, superior and rector at the Basilian Institutes in Ukraine. And during 2005-2014 he was a superior of the Basilian monastery in Kyiv.
On April 2, 2014 Tucapets was appointed and on May 21, 2014 was consecrated to the Episcopate as the first Archiepiscopal Exarch of the new created Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kharkiv and the Titular Bishop of Centuriones. The principal consecrator was Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
