Vitaliy Kryvytskyi

Bishop Vitaliy Kryvytskyi or Vitaliy Krivitskiy, S.D.B. (Ukrainian: Віталій Кривицький; born 19 August 1972 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate as the Diocesan Bishop of Kyiv–Zhytomyr since 30 April 2017.

Coat of arms of Bishop Vitaliy Kryvytskyi, S.D.B.
Vitaliy Kryvytskyi, S.D.B.
Diocesan Bishop of
Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
Appointed30 April 2017
PredecessorVitaliy Skomarovskyi
(Ap. Administrator)
SuccessorIncumbent
Orders
Ordination24 May 1997 (Priest)
by Albin Małysiak
Consecration24 June 2017 (Bishop)
by Claudio Gugerotti
Personal details
Birth nameVitaliy Frantsovych Kryvytskyi
Born (1972-08-19) 19 August 1972
Odessa, Ukrainian SSR

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;[1] 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,[2] after graduation of the Major Theological Seminary in Grodno, Belarus (1990–1991) and Major Theological Salesian Seminary in Kraków, Poland (1991–1997). In the same time he studied at the Catholic University of Lublin.[1]

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.[1]

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.[2]

References
  1. "Призначено нового Ординарія Київсько-Житомирської Дієцезії". Official Website of the Conference of the Roman-Catholic Bishops in Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  2. "Bishop Vitalii Kryvytskyi, S.D.B." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Vitaliy Skomarovskyi
(as Apostolic Administrator)		 Diocesan Bishop of Kyiv-Zhytomyr
2017–		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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