Very Reverend Vasyl Olevych
Born in Ukraine in 1985. In 2002, he entered the Ivano-Frankivsk Theological Seminary of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. During his studies, he received scholarship support from the Rev. Dr. Wolodymyr and Halyna Lewytzkyj Scholarship Fund (Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA).
From 2004, he served as choir director and psalomshchyk at the Cathedral of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos in Ivano-Frankivsk.
In 2006–2010, he continued his theological education at the Theological Academy of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. During the same period, he completed studies at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, specializing in Religious Studies and Philosophy.
On October 6, 2013, he was ordained to the diaconate, and on January 14, 2015, to the priesthood by Metropolitan Andriy (Abramchuk), ruling hierarch of the Ivano-Frankivsk Eparchy of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC).pcu.if.ua
From 2015, he served as a priest of the Cathedral of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos (UAOC) in Ivano-Frankivsk.
In 2017, he became head of the Ivano-Frankivsk Brotherhood of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called, whose ministry focused on charitable work and volunteer service within the Orthodox Church in Ukraine.
On December 15, 2018, together with members of the Brotherhood at St. Sophia Square in Kyiv, he offered spiritual support during the Unification Council, which proclaimed the establishment of the independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine and elected Metropolitan Epiphaniy (Dumenko) as its Primate.
Since 2022, he has been serving as parish priest of the Saint Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Diaspora, Diocese of Australia and New Zealand.