Career
Bishop Pasichny was born on 27 March 1927 in Winnipeg, Canada. At age 15 he joined the Order of Street Basil the Great, and after novitiate studied philosophy and theology in Canada and then at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Pasichny was ordained as a priest by Bishop Ivan Buchko on 5 July 1953.
He continued his studies by obtaining a Licenciate in Philosophy from the Gregorian University the following year.