Mykola Simkaylo

Mykola Simkaylo
Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kolomyia – Chernivtsi
Church	Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Appointed	2 June 2005
Predecessor	Volodymyr Viytyshyn
Successor	Vacant
Orders
Ordination	15 May 1974 (Priest) by Pavlo Vasylyk
Consecration	12 July 2005 (Bishop) by Lubomyr Husar
Personal details
Birth name	Mykola Mykhaylovych Simkaylo
Born	21 November 1952 Karaganda, Kazakh SSR
Died	21 May 2013(2013-05-21) (aged 60) Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine

Mykola Simkaylo (21 November 1952, Kazakhstan – 21 May 2013) was eparch of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kolomyia – Chernivtsi in Ukraine since 2 June 2005 until his death.

Views on ecumenism

Bishop Simkaylo was known to be a strong supporter of Christian ecumenism. Speaking to the charity Aid to the Church in Need during a visit, he praised President Yushchenko "personally acting as a catalyst to reconcile the various factions of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine", as well as Major Archbishop Cardinal Lubomyr Husar.^[1]

Citations

↑ UKRAINE: "Ut unum sint“ is our goal, Greek Catholic Bishop says

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Preceded by Volodymyr Viytyshyn	Eparch of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kolomyia – Chernivtsi 2005—2013	Succeeded by Vasyl Ivasyuk

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church hierarchy

Major archbishop	Sviatoslav Shevchuk (Kiev–Galicia)

Metropolitan archeparchs	Sviatoslav Shevchuk (Kyiv) Stefan Soroka (Philadelphia) Lawrence Daniel Huculak (Winnipeg) Ihor Vozniak (Lviv) Volodymyr Viytyshyn (Ivano-Frankivsk) Vasyl Semeniuk (Ternopil–Zboriv) Valdomiro Koubetch (São João Batista em Curitiba) Eugeniusz Popowicz (Przemyśl–Warsaw)

Eparchs	Dmytro Hryhorak (Buchach) David Motiuk (Edmonton) Hlib Lonchyna (Holy Family of London) Vasyl Ivasiuk (Kolomyia – Chernivtsi) Kenneth Nowakowski (New Westminster) Bohdan Danylo (Saint Josaphat in Parma) Richard Seminack (Saint Nicholas of Chicago) Borys Gudziak (Saint Vladimir the Great of Paris) Peter Stasiuk (Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne) Yaroslav Pryriz (Sambir–Drohobych) Daniel Kozelinski Netto (Ap. Administrator) (Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires) Meron Mazur (Imaculada Conceição in Prudentópolis) Bryan Bayda (Saskatoon) Mykhaylo Koltun (Sokal–Zhovkva) Paul Chomnycky (Stamford) Taras Senkiv (Stryi) Stephen Chmilar (Toronto and Eastern Canada) Włodzimierz Juszczak (Wrocław – Gdańsk)

Apostolic exarchs	Piotr Kryk (Germany and Scandinavia)

Archiepiscopal exarchs	Stephan Meniok (Donetsk) Josaphat Hovera (Lutsk) Mykhaylo Bubniy (Odessa) Vasyl Tuchapets (Kharkiv) Mykhaylo Bubniy (Archiep. Administrator) (Krym)

Apostolic visitors	Hlib Lonchyna (Ireland) Dionisio Lachovicz (Italy and Spain) Daniel Kozelinski Netto (Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile and Venezuela)

Curial and Auxiliary bishops	Venedykt Aleksiychuk (Lviv) John Bura (Philadelphia) Bohdan Dzyurakh (Kiev–Galicia) Hryhoriy Komar (Sambir–Drohobych) Bohdan Manyshyn (Stryi) Teodor Martynyuk (Ternopil–Zboriv) Yosyf Milyan (Kyiv) Yosafat Moschych (Ivano-Frankivsk)

Bishops emeritus	Lubomyr Husar (Major archbishop) (Kiev–Galicia) Stephen Sulyk (Metropolitan) (Philadelphia) Jan Martyniak (Metropolitan) (Przemyśl – Warsaw) Iryney Bilyk (Buchach) Basil Losten (Stamford) Wasyl Medwit (Donetsk) Robert Moskal (Saint Josaphat in Parma) Miguel Mykycej (Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires) Andrés Sapelak (Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires) Michael Wiwchar (Saskatoon) Severian Yakymyshyn (New Westminster)

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