Venedykt Aleksiychuk

Reflections on The Liturgical Reading of Gospel - 2015

Reflections on The Liturgical Reading of the Apostles – 2015

On August 3, 2010 Lyubomyr Husar, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Galicia, by general consent of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC, appointed hieromonk Venedykt Aleksiychuk bishop-auxiliary of Lviv Archeparchy. His episcopal chirotonia (ordination) was held on September 5, 2010 at St. George’s Cathedral in Lviv (the main consecrator – Archbishop Ihor Voznyak, Metropolitan of Lviv, co-consecrators: Bishop of Sambir-Drohobych Yulian Voronovskyi and Bishop of Stamford Pavlo Chomytskyi).

2009 – Appointed a member of the Secretariat of the Patriarchal Sobor, which was held in Brazil in 2011.

2009-’10 – Studied “Propaedeutics of mental disorders” at the Ukrainian Community of Psychiatrists.

2009-’12 – Studied pedagogy and psychology at the Ignatianum Academy in Krakow (Poland).

2008-’10 – He completed a course of Practical Psychology at the European School of Correspondential Education (Kharkiv).

2007-’09 – Headed the UGCC Liturgical Council on preparing texts of divine services.

2007-’10 – Served as the Head of the Council of Higher Superiors of Monasteries of the UGCC.

2006 – Served as administrator of St. Nicholas parish in Peremyshlyany.

2006-’08 – Served as the Head of the Secretariat of UGCC Council of Monasticism.

2004-’10 – Served as a member of the Patriarchal Commission of Monasticism.

Bishop Venedykt (Aleksiychuk), bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Chicago(born January 16, 1968 in Borshchivka, Kostopil Raion, Rivne Oblast, Ukrainian SSR). Became auxiliary bishop of Lviv on September 5, 2010; became bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Chicago on June 29, 2017.