Ihor Skochylias was born on 5 April 1967, in Tsyhany, now the Borshchiv urban hromada of the Chortkiv Raion of the Ternopil Oblast of Ukraine.
[2] In 1991–1993, he worked as an archivist of the II category and a research officer at the State Archives of Ternopil Oblast.
[3] The author of more than 300 scientific publications, in which Skochylias presented research on pre-modern religious culture in Ukraine, the ecclesial tradition of Eastern Christianity, the union idea, and the institutional history of the Kyiv Metropolis.
During the meeting, the volume "Zamoiskyi provintsiinyi sobor Rus'koi Uniinoi Tserkvy 1720 roku" ("Kyivske khrystyianstvo" publishing series) was presented, which became the last large-scale work of Professor Skochylias.
[5] The Center for Religious Culture of Ukrainian Catholic University was named after Ihor Skochylias.