Milyan was born in
Dobryany in
Lviv Oblast. He had clandestinely, because of
Communist persecution, had
monastic vows in the
Univ Lavra on 8 March 1983 and was ordained as
hieromonk on 30 December 1984 by metropolitan
Volodymyr Sterniuk. He served in the different
Ukrainian Studite monasteries in Ukraine until 1997 and from 1997 until 2008 was the head of the youth ministry commission of the UGCC. In 2008 he was transferred to Kyiv and appointed the superior of the Annunciation chapel at the
Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ. On 16 April 2009, he was confirmed by
Pope Benedict XVI as an Auxiliary Bishop of the
Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Kyiv and appointed as a
Titular Bishop of
Drusiliana. He was consecrated as a bishop by Metropolitan
Jan Martyniak and co-consecrators: bishop
Yulian Voronovskyi and bishop
Peter Stasiuk in the
Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv on 18 June 2009. {{Infobox bishop styles ==References==