Head of the Department of External Church Relations for UGCC, President of the Ukrainian Catholic University.
Borys Gudziak was born in 1960 in Syracuse, NY to Ukrainian immigrants. He received degrees from Syracuse University, the Pontifical Urban University, and the Pontifical Oriental Institute. He holds a doctorate in Slavic and Byzantine Cultural and Ecclesiastical History from Harvard University.
He moved to Ukraine in 1992 to develop the Ukrainian Catholic University — the first Catholic University in the former Soviet Union. He taught in Ukraine for 20 years and lead the university for 12 years as rector. He has over 800 scholarly, analytic, and journalistic publications.
In 2012, Gudziak was ordained as Bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) for France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, and Switzerland.
In 2019, Bishop Gudziak was enthroned as Metropolitan and Archbishop of Philadelphia for Ukrainian Catholics in the US.