PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Archimandrite Mykhailo Onyshchenko, exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate since 2018, was elected by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on October 6 to be elevated to bishop. His titular see is Comana, an early Christian city in Turkey that is recognized as the place where St. John Chrysostom was originally buried.
Having served as a priest in Lutsk, Volyn Oblast, the Rev. Onyshchenko served as an inspector of the theological seminary in Lutsk. He studied in Greece for 10 years, and later served as rector of the Church of St. Alypius the Stylite of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in Antalya, Turkey.