Tadeusz Hoppe, S.D.B., so after secondary school he joined the Salesians of Don Bosco in 1989.

[1] He made his solemn profession on 27 July 1996, and was ordained as priest on 24 May 1997,[2] after graduation from the Major Theological Seminary in Grodno, Belarus (1990–1991) and Major Theological Salesian Seminary in Kraków, Poland (1991–1997).

Kryvytskyi returned to Ukraine in 1997 and began to work in the Salesian parishes as a superior of the different local communities and youth animator in Odesa, Zhytomyr Oblast and Lviv Oblast.

[1] On 30 April 2017 he was appointed by the Pope Francis as the Diocesan Bishop of the Kyiv–Zhytomyr.

On 24 June 2017 he was consecrated as bishop by Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, Apostolic Nuncio to Ukraine, and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church in the Co-Cathedral of St. Alexander in Kyiv.