Leon Malyi

After graduation of the school education, continued to study at the Lviv cinema college.

In the same time he joined the clandestine Roman Catholic Theological Seminary under the supervision of Father Henrik Mosing:[1] he was ordained as priest on June 7, 1984, by clandestine Bishop Jan Cienski[2] (single Roman Catholic bishop in the territory of Ukraine) after graduation of the theological studies.

Malyi continued to study in the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome with Doctor of Sacred Theology degree (1995–2000).

He returned to Ukraine in 2000 and began to work as a Prefect in the Major Roman Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv (2000–2002).

On June 20, 2002, he was consecrated as bishop by Metropolitan Archbishop Marian Cardinal Jaworski and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church.