Jan Sobilo

Bishop Sobilo was born in the Roman-Catholic family in Nisko. After graduation of the school education in Zarzecze (1969–1977) and lyceum his native town (1977–1981), he subsequently joined the Major Theological Seminary in Lublin and the Catholic University of Lublin, and graduated them with a Master of Sacred Theology degree (1981–1986).[1] He was ordained as priest on December 13, 1986,[2] after completed his philosophical and theological study.

After his ordination he served as an assistant parish priest in Poland from 1986 until 1991, when he has been transferred to Ukraine. From 1991 to 1993 he was a parish priest in Manykivtsi, Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi and from 1993 Fr. Sobilo performed such ministry, as a parish priest in Zaporizhia and a Vicar General of Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia (since 2002). Under his initiative and a supervision was constructed and consecrated in 2004 the Co-Cathedral of God Father Merciful.[1]

On October 30, 2010, he was appointed by the Pope Benedict XVI as the Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia and Titular Bishop of Bulna. On December 8, 2010, he was consecrated as bishop by Bishop Marian Buczek and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church.[2]