He was born in a peasant family in the town of Tlumach in the Kosiv region of Western Ukraine, and was ordained in 1911 by Hryhorij Chomyszyn after graduating from the Sts.

Kovch conducted his priestly ministry in Przemysl, while attending to his parishioners' social and cultural life.

On March 25, 1944 he died in the infirmary of Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin, Poland.

"[citation needed] His beatification took place on June 27, 2001 in Lviv, during the Byzantine rite liturgy conducted by Pope John Paul II.

Here we are all equal: Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, Russians, Latvians, and Estonians.