Bishop Vitalii Kryvytskyi
Bishop Ordinary
Bishop Vitaliy was born on August 19, 1972, in Odesa. In 1987, he began his underground formation in his hometown under the guidance of Salesian priest Fr. Tadeusz Hoppe, joining the Salesian Society of St. John Bosco in 1990.
After studying at the Kraków Theological Seminary, he was ordained a priest on May 24, 1997.
Fr. Vitaliy initially carried out his pastoral ministry as a parish vicar in Odesa (1997–2004). From 2004 to 2012, he served as the head of the parish and the Salesian community in Korostyshiv, Zhytomyr region.
For the next two years, he ministered in Peremyshlyany, Lviv region, and in 2014, he was appointed pastor of St. Peter’s Parish in Odesa.
On Sunday, April 30, 2017, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had appointed Rev. Fr. Vitaliy Kryvytskyi, SDB, pastor of St. Peter’s Parish in Odesa, as the Bishop of the Kyiv-Zhytomyr Diocese in Ukraine.