Artur Bubnevych

Artur Olexandrovych Bubnevych (born 22 June 1975) is a Ukrainian-American prelate of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church who has served as the Eparch of Phoenix since 2025.

Biography

Early life Bubnevych was born in Perechyn, Ukrainian SSR. He graduated from Uzhgorod Greek Catholic Seminary in 1998 and received the minor orders up to subdeacon the next year. In 2013, he was invited to the United States by Gerald Dino to serve in a pastoral role. He was ordained to the diaconate on 9 March 2014 and to the priesthood on 14 September of the same year by Dino.

Priesthood In January 2015, Bubnevych was named pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and oversaw significant growth in the population of that parish during the COVID-19 pandemic. He was also one of 5 priests from the United States who was selected to attend the Sixteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.

He is a supporter of Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian War, stating that "It was always my prayer that life in Ukraine would become better and the Ukrainian state would become more Democratic and more pro-Western." His parents, who had lived in Ukraine until 2022, now live in Hungary as refugees.

Episcopacy On 8 November 2024, Bubnevych was appointed eparch of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of the Holy Protection of Mary of Phoenix, succeeding John Stephen Pazak.