From 1921 he was at the parish in the village of Lanivtsi,[3][6][7] where he founded a cooperative, a drama club, and the mixed choir "Prosvita".
[2] On 24 November 1924, he was granted the right to wear a pelerine, named the mayor of Skalskyi and made a school commissioner.
[2] After the beginning of the oppression of the Greek Catholic Church, he held services in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast underground.
[2] In 1947, he was arrested by the Borshchiv District Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Article 54-10 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR).
Together they raised seven children: Nadiia, Bohdan, Mariia, Dariia, Sofia, Volodymyr-Rostyslav, and Hanna (wife of at.