Yuriy Yurchyovych Yurchyk (born in 1970 in Kamianets-Podilskyi) was a bishop (since 1999) and archbishop (since 2005) of the UOC-KP of Donetsk and Mariupol.
Since 1990 Yurchyk has been a psalmist of the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in the town of Hirnyk, Donetsk Region.
[1] On May 14, 1999, Yurchyk was ordained bishop of Donetsk and Luhansk by the Divine Liturgy in the Volodymyr Cathedral of Kyiv and appointed head of the Donetsk-Luhansk diocese.
In 2009 Yuriy Yurchyk transferred to the UGCC, where he was accepted as a simple priest of the Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk.
In 2014, he left Donetsk engulfed in fighting and moved to Zaporizhia, [4] where he became a resident at the co-cathedral Roman Catholic parish of God the Merciful Father.