Pope Francis has approved the decision of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic Church to appoint Bishop Andriy Rabiy as Auxiliary Bishop for the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg.
Bishop Andriy Rabiy was born October 1, 1975 in Lviv, Ukraine and after initiating seminary studies in Ivano-Frankivsk transferred to the United States where he completed his seminary formation and was ordained to the priesthood on December 19, 2001 in Philadelphia by Metropolitan Stefan Soroka. In addition to various pastoral assignments in the United States, he completed a doctorate in Canon Law at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He also served within the Philadelphia chancery in various capacities in addition to other positions as chancellor and vicar general.
Bishop Andriy was ordained to the episcopacy on September 3, 2017 in Lviv, Ukraine and was installed as Auxiliary Bishop for the Archeparchy of Philadelphia on September 24 that same year. Upon the retirement of Metropolitan Stefan Soroka in 2018, he was appointed the Apostolic Administrator for the Archeparchy of Winnipeg, a position in which he served until Metropolitan Borys Gudziak was installed as the new Metropolitan.
Bishop Andriy Rabiy is the seventh auxiliary bishop to serve the Archeparchy of Winnipeg, the first being Bishop Neil Savaryn, OSBM, who was appointed in 1943. Bishop Rabiy’s pastoral and canonical experience will be of great assistance in ministry in the Archeparchy of Winnipeg where some some 12,000 Ukrainian refugees who have recently arrived in Manitoba fleeing the war in Ukraine.
