On Sunday, Sept. 17, Bishop Bohdan J. Danylo will make a Hierarchial visit to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Ukrainian Catholic Church located at 4136 Jacob St., Wheeling. This is Bohdan’s first visit to the parish since being appointed bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of St. Josaphat of Parma, Ohio in 2014.

The Rev. Father Jason Charron, pastor of OLPH and the parishioners cordially invites the public to attend the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy celebrated by Bishop Bohdan at 8 a.m. Sept. 17 and experience the beauty and richness of the Byzantine style liturgy. A reception breakfast will follow the Divine Liturgy at which time everyone will have the opportunity to meet and talk with the bishop. This will all take place at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Ukrainian Catholic ChurchDanylo was born May 22, 1971 in Gizycko, Poland, the son of Miroslaw and Olga Danylo (nee Gajocha). He is the older of two children. His sister Maria with her husband Bogdan Fedirko live in Chicago.

Danylo grew up in Przemysl (Peremyshl), where he attended grade school and high school. After graduating from II Liceum in 1990, he entered seminary formation at the Metropolitan Seminary in Lublin, and studied philosophy at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. In 1992, he immigrated with his family to the United States of America where he continued his theological studies at the Catholic University of America while residing at St. Josaphat’s Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in Washington, DC. In 1996, he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Sacred Theology.

He has a connection to the Eparchy of Parma, inasmuch as his paternal grandfather, John Danylo was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. in 1909 and left America for Eastern Europe before the outset of World War I.