Bishop Pavlo Honcharuk
Bishop Pavlo Honcharuk was born on January 16, 1978, in the village of Kornachivka, Khmelnytskyi region, as the fifth of twelve children. In 1982, the family moved to the town of Gorodok, where the future bishop graduated from secondary school and the Higher Theological Seminary of the Holy Spirit. After being ordained a priest on June 22, 2002, Fr. Pavlo served as a pastor in Kamianets-Podilskyi. From 2003 to 2020, he led the diocesan branch of Caritas-Spes in the Kamianets-Podilskyi Diocese. In 2005, he was appointed Defender of the Bond in the Episcopal Court and, at the same time, began distance learning at Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, which he completed in 2010, obtaining a licentiate in Canon Law. From 2010 to 2017, he served as rector of the parish of St. Michael the Archangel in Dunaivtsi. From 2016 to 2020, he served as a judge in the Episcopal Tribunal of the Kamianets-Podilskyi Diocese. From 2017 to 2020, he also served as the bursar of the Kamianets-Podilskyi Diocese.
On January 6, 2020, His Holiness Pope Francis nominated Father Pavlo Honcharuk as bishop of the Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia Diocese. Pavlo Goncharuk's episcopal ordination took place on February 14, 2020, at the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kharkiv. The bishop leads the Military Pastoral Care Commission of the Conference of Bishops of the Roman-Catholic Church in the Ukraine, and is also the Chairman of the Interfaith Council on Military Chaplaincy at the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
