{{Infobox Christian leader | name = Jacek Pyl, O.M.I. | image = Jacek Pyl.jpg | birth_name = Jacek Pyl | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|8|17|df=y}} | birth_place = Garwolin, Polish People's Republic | church = Roman Catholic Church | title = Titular Bishop of Nova Sinna,<br>Auxiliary Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Odesa-Simferopol,<br>Delegate of the Holy See for the apostolic district of Crimea and Sevastopol | appointed = 23 November 2012 | ordination = 20 June 1988 (Priest) | ordained_by = Jerzy Stroba | consecration = 5 January 2013 (Bishop) | consecrated_by = Bronislaw Bernacki | predecessor = | successor = Incumbent | coat_of_arms = 140px | other_post = Superior of the Delegature of Missionary Oblates in Ukraine (1997–2006, 2012) }}
Bishop '''Jacek Pyl''', O.M.I. ({{langx|uk|Яцек Пиль}}; {{langx|pl|Jacek Pyl}}; born 17 August 1962 in Garwolin,<ref name="AV">{{cite web |url=https://plus.dzienniklodzki.pl/magazyn/a/nasz-polski-biskup-na-krymie,12081668 |title=Nasz polski biskup na Krymie|language=Polish |work=plus.dzienniklodzki.pl|accessdate=6 December 2017}}</ref> Poland) is a Polish-born Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, who serves as an Auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Odesa-Simferopol and the Titular Bishop of Nova Sinna since 21 October 2006. Since 2013 he has been living in Simferopol, Crimea and after Russian anexation of the penisula was appointed delegate of the Holy See for the apostolic district of Crimea and Sevastopol.<ref>https://acninternational.org/crimea-the-restitution-of-a-catholic-church-in-sevastopol-which-had-been-turned-into-a-cinema-during-soviet-times-is-described-as-an-act-of-historical-justice/</ref>
==Life== Bishop Pyl was born in the Roman-Catholic family in a present-day Masovian Voivodeship. After graduation of the school education, he joined the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in 1977;<ref name="IV"/> he made a solemn profession on 8 September 1986, and was ordained as priest on 20 June 1988,<ref name="CH"/> after graduation of the Major Missionary Oblates Theological Seminary in Obra, Poland and Theological faculty of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.<ref name="IV"/>
After his ordination he served as an assistant novice master for the Missionary Oblates in Poland from 1988 until 1990, when he has been transferred to Ukraine. Fr. Pyl served in the Missionary Oblates parishes in the different regions of Ukraine. When in 1997 was established the Delegature of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Ukraine, he became its first Superior until 2006. Also he again served as a Superior of the Delegature for a short time in 2012.<ref name="IV">{{cite web |url=http://www.rkc.odessa.ua/?page_id=258 |title=ЄПИСКОП ПОМІЧНИК|language=Ukrainian |work=Official Website of the Diocese of Odesa-Simferopol|accessdate=6 December 2017}}</ref>
On 23 November 2012 he was appointed by the Pope Benedict XVI as the Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Odesa-Simferopol and Titular Bishop of Nova Sinna. On 5 January 2013 he was consecrated as bishop by Bishop Bronislaw Bernacki and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church.<ref name="CH">{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bpyl|Bishop Jacek Pyl, O.M.I.|6 December 2017}}</ref>
From 2013 he is residing in Simferopol.<ref name="IV"/>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pyl, Jacek}} Category:1962 births Category:Living people Category:People from Garwolin County Category:Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Category:Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań alumni Category:Ukrainian people of Polish descent Category:Polish expatriates in Ukraine Category:21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ukraine