Former Archbishop of the Ukrainian Eparchy of Philadelphia, Metropolitan Constantine Bohacevskyj was born in Manaievo, Zolochiv county, Galicia. He studied theology at the universities of Lviv, Innsbruck, and Munich, attaining the degree of doctor of theology. Ordained to the priesthood on January 31, 1909, he served as prefect of the Lviv Seminary (1911-14), adviser and deputy of the Lviv consistory, military chaplain (1916-17), pastor of the Peremyshl Cathedral from 1918, vicar general and Apostolic Protonotary (1923). Appointed Apostolic Exarch of the Ukrainian Catholics in the USA, he received his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Amisus on June 15, 1924. Appointed Archbishop of the Titular See of Beroë and the First Metropolitan of the Philadelphia Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitanate, Bohacevskyj improved the religious, educational, national, organizational and economic level of the American Exarchate. He was a patron of Ukrainian scholarly and cultural institutions.
Former Archbishop of the Ukrainian Eparchy of Philadelphia, Metropolitan Constantine Bohacevskyj was born in Manaievo, Zolochiv county, Galicia. He studied theology at the universities of Lviv, Innsbruck, and Munich, attaining the degree of doctor of theology. Ordained to the priesthood on January 31, 1909, he served as prefect of the Lviv Seminary (1911-14), adviser and deputy of the Lviv consistory, military chaplain (1916-17), pastor of the Peremyshl Cathedral from 1918, vicar general and Apostolic Protonotary (1923). Appointed Apostolic Exarch of the Ukrainian Catholics in the USA, he received his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Amisus on June 15, 1924. Appointed Archbishop of the Titular See of Beroë and the First Metropolitan of the Philadelphia Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitanate, Bohacevskyj improved the religious, educational, national, organizational and economic level of the American Exarchate. He was a patron of Ukrainian scholarly and cultural institutions.
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