Vasyl Hovera (Ukrainian: Василь Говера; born 11 December 1972) is a Ukrainian-born hierarch for Eastern Catholic Churches of the Byzantine Rite, who serves as an Apostolic Administrator of the Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan and Central Asia for Faithful of Byzantine Rite, with a see in Karaganda, for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan since 1 June 2019.
[1] He was ordained as a deacon on 28 July 1996 and as a priest on 2 March 1997 for the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv,[2] after completing theological studies.
In the same year he began his missionary and pastoral work among Catholic faithful of the Byzantine rite in Kazakhstan.
Hovera on 11 November 2002 was appointed an Apostolic Delegate for Kazakhstan and Central Asia with a dependency from the Congregation for the Oriental Churches and in 2005 was elevated in a rank of Mitred Archpriest.
[2] His father, Yaroslav Hovera, was a prisoner in the Soviet Union Gulag and spent 15 years in the corrective labor camp in Karaganda.