Andrew (Peshko)
Bishop Andriy (secular name Bohdan Peshko, Ukrainian: Богдан Пешко) is titular bishop of Krateia, auxiliary or assistant bishop to Metropolitan Yurij (Kalistchuk) of Winnipeg and administrator of the Eastern Eparchy of the autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada.
Youth and education
Bohdan Peshko was born on April 27, 1972, in Western Ukraine, completing his primary and secondary studies in Soviet Ukraine before entering the St. Petersburg Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1993.
In 1994 Bohdan entered Christ the Savior Theological Seminary in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and joined the American Carpatho-Rusyn Orthodox Diocese under Metropolitan Nicholas (Smisko) of Amissus. Bohdan went on from Christ the Savior to study at the Kiev Theological Academy in the Ukrainian capital, from which he graduated in 2000.
Ordination and episcopacy
On April 8, 2001, Bohdan was ordained to the deaconate by Archbishop Vsevolod (Maidansky) of Scopelos and the Western Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA, in 2003 being elevated to the rank of protodeacon.
On September 21, 2005, Protodeacon Bohdan was tonsured a monk in Chicago with the name Andriy (Andrew) and four days later was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Vsevolod, who promoted him to the rank of hegumen.
A month later Fr. Bohdan was elevated to the rank of archimandrite in the Ukrainian Orthodox cathedral in London and on November 22, 2005, was elected Bishop of Krateia and auxiliary of the Ukrainian Orthodox Eparchy of Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand by the Holy Synod of the Constantinopolitan Orthodox Church.
On December 13, 2005, he was consecrated to the episcopacy in Chicago's Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Vladimir by seven bishops representing the UOCC, the UOCUSA, the Romanian Orthodox Church, the American Orthodox Church, and the Carpatho-Rusyn Orthodox Diocese.
At the 2008 special sobor (council) of the UOCC in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Andriy was nominated for election as 'Bishop of Saskatoon and Vicar of the Central Eparchy' to assist Metropolitan Yurij of the UOCC in his administration of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. On February 1, 2011, Andriy was appointed administrator ("acting bishop") of the UOCC's Eastern Eparchy, which oversees the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Ontario and Quebec.
Neither the transfer of Andriy from the Western European Eparchy to the Central Canadian Eparchy, or from the Central Canadian Eparchy to the Eastern Canadian Eparchy was recognized by the Church of Constantinople.