Petro Holiney
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by Pavlo Vasylyk
Petro Holiney | |
|---|---|
| Titular Bishop of Abrittum, Auxiliary Bishop of Eparchy of Kolomyia | |
| Church | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
| Appointed | 12 July 2023 |
| Previous post(s) | Chancellor of Apostolic Exarchate of Italy (2020–2023) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 29 November 1998 (Priest) by Pavlo Vasylyk |
| Consecration | 20 August 2023 (Bishop) by Sviatoslav Shevchuk |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Petro Vasyliovych Holiney 12 July 1973 Dobrotiv, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR |
| Denomination | Ukrainian Greek Catholic |
| Coat of arms |  |
Bishop Petro Holiney (Ukrainian: Петро Голіней; born 12 July 1973) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, who serves as Titular Bishop of Abrittum and Auxiliary Bishop of the Eparchy of Kolomyia since 12 July 2023.
Bishop Holiney was born in a family with a five children[1] in the village Dobrotiv of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. After graduation from the school education, he joined the Ivano-Frankivsk Theological Institute of Greek-Catholic Church, where extramurally completed his philosophical and theological studies from 1991 until 1996 with the qualification of teacher of religion.[2] In the same time he belonged to the group of priests and seminarians, united around Fr. Mykhailo Kosylo, clandestine priest and educator, where Petro Holiney completed his seminarian formation.[3] He was ordained as a deacon on 9 April 1992 by Bishop Sofron Dmyterko for then the Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk, incardinated into the newly created Eparchy of Kolomyia – Chernivtsi on 20 April 1993 and lately ordained as a priest on 29 November 1998 by Bishop Pavlo Vasylyk for this circumscription.[4]
