Teodor Matsapula
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Teodor Matsapula IVE | |
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| Eparchial Bishop of Eparchy of Mukachevo | |
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| Church | Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church |
| Appointed | 8 May 2024 |
| Predecessor | Nil Lushchak (as Apostolic Administrator) |
| Previous post(s) | Provincial Superior of the Ukrainian Delegature of Institute of the Incarnate Word (2013–2019) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 10 February 2008 (Priest) by Volodymyr Viytyshyn |
| Consecration | 16 July 2024 (Bishop) by Volodymyr Viytyshyn |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Andriy Yaremovych Matsapula 21 August 1981 |
| Denomination | Ruthenian Greek Catholic |
| Coat of arms |  |
Bishop Teodor Andriy Matsapula IVE (Ukrainian: Теодор Андрій Мацапула; born 21 August 1981) is a Ukrainian Ruthenian Catholic hierarch, who serves as an Eparchial Bishop of the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo since 8 May 2024.
Bishop Matsapula was born in a family of philology teachers in the village Krylos of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. He was clandestinely baptised in 1984 in the church in Yamnytsia, because of the religion persecutions.[1] After graduation from the school education and discernment period, he joined the Institute of the Incarnate Word in 2001, continuing his studies at the International Seminary of San Vitaliano, in Segni, Italy, and at the San Bruno Vescovo Center for Higher Studies, where completed his philosophical and theological studies from 2002 until 2008.[2] He had a profession on 23 October 2002 and a solemn profession on 25 August 2007, and was ordained as priest on 10 February 2008 by Bishop Volodymyr Viytyshyn.[3]
