Our Pastor, Father Kostiantyn, holds an important position within the clergy of our parish. He is married to Therese and together they have two children. 

 

On December 1st, 2024, Father Kostiantyn was ordained to priesthood by Bp. Benedict (Aleksiychuk) during the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy. Before assuming his responsibilities as pastor, he assisted Very Rev. Pavlo in both liturgical and pastoral duties. Some of his responsibilities included preparing the altar, proclaiming the Gospel, chanting litanies, and assisting with the distribution of the Holy Communion.

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The parish is blessed to have him serving at St. Sophia Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church!

Fr. Frank is a returning reverend to St. Sophia Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He is married to pani-matka Susan! She is a speech-language and they have two children together: Brandon and Erin.

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Fr. Frank was born in Peru in 1951 and was baptized and raised in the Latin tradition. When he first encountered the Eastern Catholic Church as lived by Ukrainian Catholics, he fell in love with what he found and eventually petitioned and was granted a canonical change to the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

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Attending seminary and Formation via Immaculate Conception in Palatine, IL and St. John the Baptizer in La Mesa, California, his business travels brought him frequently through Dallas where he made St Sophia a second home. After his ordination to the priesthood in May 2015, he served as administrator of St. Josaphat Church in Munster, Indiana and as vice-chancellor of the Eparchy of St. Nicholas. His health made him unable to sustain a full schedule of priestly ministry, so he and pani-matka Susan retired to Dallas where we are abundantly blessed by their presence.

 

In addition to his tireless and selfless service at the altar, the Reverend Father sits on the parish finance council.

Father Deacon John is a founding member of our parish who works in the mobile telecom industry. He is married to Gloria and together they have two grown sons (one of whom has special needs), two grand babies, and four spoiled cats. While he is far too humble to admit it, he is very knowledgeable about church traditions and his direct style lends itself to extemporaneous speaking especially in the areas of spiritual warfare, contemporary moral issues, and biomedical ethics.

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The deacon was raised in western New York, the second of five children born to John and Parania (Peggy) Novocilsky, and served at the altar at St. Josephat’s Ukrainian Catholic Church as a youth. He traveled the world with the Marine Corps for 6 years then settled in the Dallas area following his service. It was here that he went to college at the University of Texas at Dallas, from whom he received his Economics & Finance degree, and also here that he met and married Gloria. He was active in his local Roman Catholic parish and volunteered with the food pantry, ministry to the disabled, and Knights of Columbus. One day, the Roman Catholic pastor pulled him aside and told him that he needed to go down to the Roman Catholic seminary in Dallas because his bishop was going to hold a Liturgy there. The pastor had taken note of the direction (Deacon) John made the Sign of the Cross and knew enough to notify him when the Eastern Catholic bishops met in a conference in Dallas!

 

Following that small Liturgy, the Houston priest drove up for monthly liturgies, which (Deacon) John was active in. As the attendance grew, the bishop sent a missionary priest who taught Eastern Theology at the seminary and held a weekly Divine Liturgy. It wasn’t long before (Deacon) John had gone from driving a bus for the disabled to driving the bishop around looking at church properties. He attended the Ukrainian Catholic seminary in Stamford, Connecticut and later discovered that when he was at the seminary, he stayed in the room adjacent to the room his own father stayed in after arriving from Germany at the end of World War II. Father Deacon John was ordained by eternal memory +Bishop Richard Stephen (Seminack) in 2007.

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In addition to working, parenting, and his service at the altar, the Reverend Deacon sits on the parish pastoral council.

 

The parish is blessed to have him serving at St. Sophia Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church!