Andriy was born in 1882 in the town of Stryi in the Lviv region in the family of Michael and Eufrosina Rosalia Bielecki.

According to the report of the management of this institution, in 1902 he graduated from VIII grade, passed the final exams, and received a certificate of maturity [3] (in electronic versions of articles about Priest Andriy Bandera in "Encyclopedia of Ukrainian History" and "Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine" is mentioned that graduation took place in 1905).

During the elections Andriy was engaged in political explanatory work among the peasants, and was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society since 1910.

[4] The house of Andriy Bandera was frequently visited by active participants in the Ukrainian national life of Galicia (Eastern Europe), in particular: Pavlo Glodzinsky - one of the founders of the "Butter Union" and "Farmer" (Ukrainian economic institutions), Yaroslav Vesolovsky - Ambassador of the Vienna Parliament, sculptor Mykhailo Havrylko and others.

From 28 May to 8 June 1919, he lived with his family in Buchach [6]), and later moved to the village of Yahilnytsia (now Chortkiv district, Ternopil region.

[8] On the night of 22–23 May, or 23 May 1941, he was arrested as "the father of the head of the Kraków Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists center, Stepan Bandera.