Born in Zhelekhiv Velykyi, Austrian-Hungarian Empire (present-day – Velykosilka, Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine) on 1911 in the Greek-Catholic peasant family and on 1931 joined the missionary Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer.
After ordination he served in the different Redemptorist monasteries in the Western Ukraine.
[1] During 1948–1950 he was arrested, because the Communist regime abolished the Greek-Catholic Church and detained in the Univ Lavra, former monastery, that become a Soviet concentration camp.
In 23 February 1985 he was consecrated to the Episcopate as auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv.
The principal and single consecrator was clandestine Archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk.