Background
Bohdan Peshko was born on April 27, 1972, in Western Ukraine, completing his primary and secondary studies in Soviet Ukraine before entering the Saint St. Petersburg Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1993.
Bohdan Peshko was born on April 27, 1972, in Western Ukraine, completing his primary and secondary studies in Soviet Ukraine before entering the Saint St. Petersburg Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1993.
Bohdan went on from Christ the Savior to study at the Kiev Theological Academy in the Ukrainian capital, from which he graduated in 2000.
In 1994 Bohdan entered Christ the Savior Theological Seminary in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and joined the American Carpatho-Rusyn Orthodox Diocese under Metropolitan Nicholas (Smisko) of Amissus. On September 21, 2005, Protodeacon Bohdan was tonsured a monk in Chicago with the name Andriy (Andrew) and four days later was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Vsevolod, who promoted him to the rank of hegumen. A month later French Bohdan was elevated to the rank of archimandrite in the Ukrainian Orthodox cathedral in London and on November 22, 2005, was elected Bishop of Krateia and auxiliary of the Ukrainian Orthodox Eparchy of Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand by the Holy Synod of the Constantinopolitan Orthodox Church.
Neither the transfer of Andriy from the Western European Eparchy to the Central Canadian Eparchy, or from the Central Canadian Eparchy to the Eastern Canadian Eparchy was recognized by the Church of Constantinople.