Vasyl Hovera

Vasyl Hovera (; born 11 December 1972) is a Ukrainian-born hierarch for Eastern Catholic Churches of the Byzantine Rite, who serves as an Apostolic Administrator of the Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan and Central Asia for Faithful of Byzantine Rite, with a see in Karaganda, for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan since 1 June 2019.

Life Rev. Hovera was born in the family of clandestine Greek-Catholics of Yaroslav and Mariya in Ivano-Frankivsk, where he grew up. After graduation from school he joined a theological seminary and simultaneously studied at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, from 1990 until 1996 with magister of dogmatic theology degree.

On 1 June 2019 Mitred Archpriest Hovera was appointed by Pope Francis as the first Apostolic Administrator of the newly created Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan and Central Asia for Faithful of Byzantine Rite without dignity of bishop.

Personal details His father, Yaroslav Hovera, was a prisoner in the Soviet Union Gulag and spent 15 years in the corrective labor camp in Karaganda.

Apostolic Administrator Hovera has two brothers, who also are a clergymen: Rev. Andriy Ivan Hovera (born 1966), Synkellos of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Ternopil–Zboriv, and Bishop Yosafat Hovera (born 1967), Archiepiscopal Exarch of Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Lutsk.