Oleksandr Yazlovetskiy

Bishop Oleksandr Yazlovetskiy or Yazlovetskyi (Ukrainian: Олександр Язловецький; born 2 March 1979) is a Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate who serves as an Auxiliary bishop of the Kyiv–Zhytomyr and the Titular Bishop of Tulana since 18 September 2019.

Oleksandr Yazlovetskiy
Titular Bishop of Tulana, Auxiliary Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Appointed	18 September 2019
Successor	Incumbent
Other posts	Rector of the Major Seminary in Horodok (2014–2018)
Orders
Ordination	26 June 2004 (Priest) by Leon Dubrawski
Consecration	9 November 2019 (Bishop) by Claudio Gugerotti
Personal details
Birth name	Oleksandr Yazlovetskiy
Born	2 March 1979 Hybalivka, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
Coat of arms

Life

Bishop Yazlovetskiy was born in the Roman Catholic family in the Sharhorod Raion[lower-alpha 1] of the Vinnytsia Oblast. After graduation of the school education in his native village and professional-technical college, he joined the Major Theological Seminary in Horodok in 1996;[1] and was ordained as priest on 26 June 2004,[2] for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, after completed his philosophical and theological study. After the two years of pastoral and formative works, he continued studies at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, Italy, with Doctor of Canon Law degree in 2012.[1]

Fr. Yazlovetskiy returned to Ukraine in 2013 and began to work in the educational camp and during 2014–2018 served as a Rector of the Major Theological Roman Catholic Seminary in Horodok. From 2018 he has been a Chancellor of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr.[1]

On 18 September 2019 he was appointed by the Pope Francis as the Auxiliary Bishop of the Kyiv–Zhytomyr. On 9 November 2019 he was consecrated as bishop in the Co-Cathedral of St. Alexander in Kiev.[2]

See also

• List of youngest living Catholic bishops

Notes

1. For these reasons sometimes Sharhorod is wrongly indicated as his birth place.

References

1. "Наша дієцезія отримала єпископа-помічника". Official Website of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 18 September 2019.
2. "Father Oleksandr Yazlovetskiy". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 18 September 2019.