Yosyf Milyan

Josyf Milan MSU (Ukrainian: Йосиф Мілян ) ( born July 6, 1956 in Dobrjany, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine) is auxiliary bishop and Protosynkel ( vicar general ) of the Archdiocese of Kyiv - Halych of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

Josyf Milan was born in Dobrjany, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine and baptized in the name Ivan. After school and military service, he joined the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which was illegal in the former Soviet Union. On January 5, 1976, he received from Father Julian Woronowsky, the former abbot of the monastery the monks study and later Bishop of Sambir and Drohobytsch, the blessing for the monk's state. On 8 March 1983 he made ​​his final vows and was given the name Josyf (Joseph ).

After studying in the illegal seminary, he was ordained by Volodymyr Sternjuk on May 9, 1984 and December 30, 1984 deacon to the priesthood. From 1990 he was a chaplain in the cathedral of St. Georgius in Lviv. He became the top of the monastery of St. Joseph in Lviv in 1992. From 1992, he supplemented his theological studies at the Catholic University of Lublin (Poland). In May 1993, Major Archbishop Myroslaw - Ivan Ljubatschiwskyj appointed him pastor of youth clubs and in February 1997 he became chairman of the Patriarch Commission for youth ministry. As of May 1998, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church sent him to the European Committee for academic counseling. On 1 November 2008, he became pastor of the cathedral in Kiev.

On 16 April 2009 he was appointed by Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and Pope Benedict XVI. appointed as Auxiliary Bishop of Kiev - Halych and appointed Titular Bishop of Drusiliana. The bishop He was ordained on 18 June 2009 through January Martyniak in the Ukrainian Catholic Resurrection Cathedral in Kiev.