Vitaliy Kryvytskyi
Bishop Vitaliy Kryvytskyi or Vitaliy Krivitskiy, S.D.B. is a Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate as the Diocesan Bishop of Kyiv–Zhytomyr since 30 April 2017.
Life
Bishop Kryvytskyi was born in the family of Frants Kryvytskyi in the Southern Ukraine. His Christian life was inspired by Fr. Tadeusz Hoppe, S.D.B. After graduation of the school education in his native city, joined the Salesians of Don Bosco in 1989; he made a profession on January 1, 1991 and a solemn profession on July 27, 1996, and was ordained as priest on May 24, 1997, after graduation of the Major Theological Seminary in Grodno, Belarus and Major Theological Salesian Seminary in Kraków, Poland. In the same time he studied at the Catholic University of Lublin.
Fr. Kryvytskyi returned to Ukraine in 1997 and began to work in the Salesian parishes as a superior of the different local communities and youth animator in Odessa, Zhytomyr Oblast and Lviv Oblast.
On April 30, 2017, he was appointed by the Pope Francis as the Diocesan Bishop of the Kyiv–Zhytomyr. On June 24, 2017, he was consecrated as bishop by Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, Apostolic Nuncio to Ukraine and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church in the Co-Cathedral of St. Alexander in Kiev.
