{{Short description|Canadian bishop in Ukraine (born 1954)}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | honorific_prefix = His Grace The Most Reverend | name = Paul Patrick Chomnycky | honorific_suffix = O.S.B.M. | title = Eparch of Stamford | image = Chomnycky london cathedral.jpg | alt = | caption = | church = Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church | metropolis = Philadelphia | diocese = Stamford | see = | appointed = January 3, 2006 | enthroned = February 20, 2006 | retired = | predecessor = Basil H. Losten | successor = <!-- Orders --> | ordination = October 1, 1988 | ordained_by = Jeronim Isidore Chimy | consecration = June 11, 2002 | consecrated_by = Lubomyr Husar, Michael Bzdel and Lawrence Huculak | rank = <!-- Personal details --> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|5|19|df=y}} | birth_place = Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | death_date = | death_place = | previous_post = Apostolic Exarch for Ukrainians in Great Britain<br>Titular Bishop of Buffada | motto = Господь мій Пастир }} {{Infobox bishopstyles | name= Paul Patrick Chomnycky | dipstyle= *His Grace *The Most Reverend | offstyle=His Grace | relstyle=Bishop | image = Coat of arms of Paul Chomnycky .svg | image_size = 200px }}
'''Paul Patrick Chomnycky''', OSBM{{efn|{{langx|uk|Павло Патрикій Хомницький|{{transliteration|uk|ukrainian|Pavlo Patrykii Khomnytskyi}}}}}} (born 19 May 1954) is a bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. In early 2026 he is the current bishop of the Diocese of Stamford, Connecticut.<ref name=ONLB>{{cite web |url= https://www.stamforddio.org/bishop |title= Bishop |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website= Ukrainian Catholic Diocese of Stanford|publisher= |access-date= 10 March 2026 |quote=}}</ref>
==Education== Paul Chomnycky was born in Vancouver, Canada, the son of a Ukrainian-immigrant father and Canadian-born mother (both of whom died in 1996),<ref>Jaksic, Vesna, "A new leader: Bishop installed as head of Ukrainian Catholics in area", ''The Advocate'' of Stamford, Connecticut, February 21, 2006</ref> and graduated from the University of British Columbia with a bachelor's degree in Commerce in 1980. After working as an accountant for two years, he entered the novitate of the Order of St. Basil the Great, working in the Basilian monastery in New York.
On 1 October 1988, he was ordained as a priest of the Order of St. Basil the Great. Then, he continued with further studies in Philosophy at the University of St. Anselm and the Gregorian University in Rome, receiving a Bachelor's in Sacred Theology in 1990.
Upon his return to Canada, he served briefly as an assistant pastor at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Mundare, Alberta and St. Basil's, Edmonton. Eventually he would return to both parishes as their pastor in 1997 and 2000 and also served as the pastor of St. Mary's Church in Vancouver from 1994 to 1997. During his tenure as pastor at St. Basil's in Edmonton and St. Paul's in Mundare, he was also the superior of the local Basilian monastery.
Bishop Chomnycky also served as the Director of the Basilian Fathers museum in Mundare, a member of the Provincial Council of the Basilian Fathers of Canada, and a member of the college of consultors of the Edmonton Eparchy. He was appointed Exarch for Ukrainian Catholics in Great Britain on April 5, 2002 and consecrated bishop on June 11, 2002 by Cardinal Lubomyr Husar.
==See also==
{{portal bar|Biography|Catholicism|Connecticut}} {{Div col}} *Apostolic Exarchate for Ukrainians * Catholic Church hierarchy * Catholic Church in the United States * Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States * List of Catholic bishops of the United States * Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops {{div col end}}
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*[http://www.stamforddio.org/ Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford Official Site] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20071031162818/http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/cn/02/020415-3.htm The Catholic Church in England and Wales news release on the appointment of Paul Chomnycky as Apostolic Exarch for Ukrainians in Great Britain]
==Episcopal succession== {{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{succession box |title=Ukrainian Catholic Bishop of Stamford |before= Basil H. Losten |after= incumbent |years= 2006-Present | }} {{succession box |title=Apostolic Exarch for Ukrainians in Great Britain |before= Michael Kuchmiak |after= Hlib Lonchyna |years= 2002-2006 | }} {{s-end}}
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