St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church, Lansford, and St. Mary's Byzantine Catholic Church, Nesquehoning, recently welcomed their new priest, the Rev. Vasyl Chepelskyy, his wife, Maria, and daughter, Victoria.
Chepelskyy was born in Lviv, in the Ukraine, and attended the Ukrainian Catholic University and the Holy Spirit Seminary for a total of seven years. He then attended the International Theological Institute in Austria. He graduated with a doctoral degree in Theology from John Paul II University in Krakow, Poland.