Vasyl Volodymyr Tuchapets was born in the family of Vasyl and Kateryna (née Datsko) Tuchapets in
Yavoriv, where he grew up. After graduation of the school education, he graduated the technical college #14 in
Ivano-Frankivsk (1982–1986) and made a compulsory service in the
Soviet Army (1986–1988). He also studied an architecture in the
Lviv Polytechnic (1988–1990). After graduation of the school education he joined a clandestine theological seminary. On 2 April 2014 Tucapets was appointed, and on 21 May 2014 was
consecrated to the
Episcopate as the first Archiepiscopal Exarch of the new created
Ukrainian Catholic Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Kharkiv and the Titular Bishop of Centuriones. The principal
consecrator was
Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the Head of the
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. ==References==