Andriy (Peshko) of Krateia

Bishop Andriy (Peshko) of Krateia is an auxiliary bishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. He is the presiding bishop for the Ukrainian Eparchy of Western Europe. At the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada Sobor of August 22-24, he was elected Bishop of Saskatoon, and Vicar of the Central Eparchy, of that Church. He currently resides in Winnipeg, the Metropolitan See of the UOCC, and awaits ratification of his election.
==Life==
Bishop Andriy was born Bohdan Peshko on April 27, 1972 in Ukraine. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Seminary in 1993, following which he undertook a year of postgraduate study at Christ the Saviour Seminary in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He completed his graduate work at the Kyiv Theological Academy, receiving a master's degree in 1999.
Bohdan next returned to the United States, where he was ordained a deacon at St. Volodymyr's Cathedral in Chicago by Archbishop Vsevolod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA, on April 8, 2001. Deacon Bohdan was tonsured as a monk in 2004, taking the new name of Andriy. Later that year, he was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Vsevolod and elevated to the rank of Hegumen.
In October 2004, the Ninth Sobor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Diaspora nominated Fr. Andriy as bishop for Western Europe. During the Sobor, Metropolitan Constantine (Bahan) of Irinoupolis elevated Fr. Andriy to the rank of Archimandrite. Archimandrite Andriy was consecrated to the episcopacy on December 13 (the Feast-day of St. Andrew), 2004 at St. Volodymyr's in Chicago. Presiding was: Metropolitan Constantine (UOC-USA), Archbishop Vsevolod (Maidansky) of Scopelos (UOC-USA), Archbishop Antony (Scherba) of Hierapolis (UOC-USA), Metropolitan Nicholas (Smisko) of Amissos (ACROD), Archbishop Yurij (Kalistchuk) of Toronto (UOCC), Archbishop Job (Osacky) of Chicago (OCA), Archbishop Nicholae of the Romanian Orthodox Church (Romanian Patriarchate), and Metropolitan Iakovos of Chicago representing the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
On Saturday, August 23, 2008, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, at the Extraordinary Church Sobor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada, Bishop Andriy, along with Bishop Ilarion (Rudnyk) (elected as bishop of Edmonton and of the Church's Western Eparchy, was elected as Bishop of Saskatoon, and Vicar of the Central Eparchy. This election is yet to be ratified by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, but his Grace has moved to Canada in the meantime already.
==Sources==
*Press Release: His Grace Bishop Andriy of London and Western Europe Consecrated
*http://zarubezhje.narod.ru/av/A_362.htm
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