Michael Fedechko

Michael Fedechko (February 19, 1937 – September 6, 2019) was a Canadian Anglican bishop and pastor in the Reformed Episcopal Church (REC).

Fedechko was born to Ukrainian immigrant parents in Myrnam, Alberta, and raised on a family farm.

He served in the Canadian Armed Forces in the 1950s and then worked several jobs, including as a newspaper publisher and editor, a radio show host and hotel manager.

Fedechko entered ordained ministry in the 1970s; he moved to Temiskaming Shores, Ontario, in 1980 and worked as a guidance counselor at the New Liskeard College of Agricultural Technology while serving bivocationally as rector of Trinity Reformed Episcopal Church in Haileybury.

[1] The Reformed Episcopal Church had dwindled in Canada to just three parishes by the early 1990s, when it was decided to create two dioceses and pursue reunification with the U.S. branch of the REC.