Born in Borysławka, Second Polish Republic (present-day – Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland) on 1926 in the Greek-Catholic peasant family with 11 children.
After his release was ordained as priest on 18 November 1956 by Blessed Bishop Nicholas Charnetsky.
[1] After ordination he served a short time in the clandestine parishes of the Western Ukraine and Crimea, until his second arrest on 1959.
[2] Bishop Vasylyk was among these persons, who on 4 August 1987 made a declaration about exit from clandestinity of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
On 20 April 1993 he was appointed as the first bishop of the new created Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kolomyia – Chernivtsi.