[1][2] Fylypchuk was born on 19 December 1955 in Potichok, now the Sniatyn hromada of Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.
Since 1999 – Associate Professor of the Department of Archaeology, Antiquity and Middle Ages at Lviv University.
He participated in more than 40 archaeological expeditions in Chernivtsi, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, and Zakarpattia Oblasts.
[1][3] From 2000 to 2010, he was a member of the Academic Council of the Faculty of History at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
[1][3] His topics of study included: early Slavic issues: ethnogenesis of the Slavs; periodization and chronology of antiquities of the second half of the first millennium AD in the Ukrainian Carpathian region; system of settlement of the Ukrainian Carpathian region in the first millennium AD; state-building processes in the western Ukrainian region in the second half of the first millennium AD based on archaeological materials.