In 1958 he entered the clandestine
Studite Brethren monastery. Working at a state job, he simultaneously studied in the underground seminary in Lviv. On 27 October 1968 he received priestly ordination at the hands of Archbishop
Vasyl Velychkovsky. Than he was Hegumen (superior) of the Studite monastery. On 30 September 1986 he received episcopal consecration at the hands of Archbishop
Volodymyr Sterniuk. He was appointed
Auxiliary bishop of the
Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv. In 1990 he was elected the archimandrite of the
Univ Holy Dormition Lavra of the Studite Rite and the Rector of Holy Spirit Seminary in
Lviv. On 20 July 1993 he was appointed the Administrator of the newly created
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Sambir-Drohobych, and from 1994-2011 was its Eparch. Voronovskyi died on 28 February 2013, after undergoing surgery without regaining consciousness in the intensive care department of the Lviv regional hospital. He was 76. ==References==