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Bishop Yosafat Bohdan Moschych, С.M.S.A.A. (Ukrainian: Йосафат Богдан Мощич; born 16 September 1976 in Staryi Rozdil, Mykolaiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch as the Titular Bishop of Pulcheriopolis and Auxiliary bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk since 27 May 2014.
Life
Bishop Moschych, after graduation of the school education, joined the Theological Seminary in Ivano-Frankivsk in 1994, and then – the new founded Missionary Congregation of Saint Andrew the Apostle on April 25, 1998; he had a profession on August 14, 1999 and a solemn profession on September 15, 2002, and was ordained as priest on September 26, 1999, after graduation of the Theological Seminary. Then he continued his studies in the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome with licentiate degree in moral theology from 2000 until 2002. During 2003–2013 he served as a Superior General of the Missionary Congregation of Saint Andrew the Apostle.
On May 27, 2014, he was confirmed by the Pope Francis as the Auxiliary Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine and Titular Bishop of Bahanna. On August 3, 2014, he was consecrated as bishop by Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk and other hierarchs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.