Michael Kwiatkowski

Bishop-elect Michael Kwiatkowski (; born 21 November 1961) is a Canadian Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, who is serving as the forth Eparchial Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of New Westminster since 24 August 2023. Early life and education Bishop Michael Kwiatkowski was born on 21 November 1961 in Hamiota, Manitoba as the third of seven children in the family of Edward Kwiatkowski and Phyllis Zemliak. Later, his father Edward (1929–2021) become a priest. He received an incomplete secondary education at a school in Brandon, Manitoba and completed secondary education at Saint Vladimir's College and the Minor Seminary in Roblin, Manitoba. After starting his studies at the university and working at the same time, he joined the seminary in 1980. In Rome, he lived in the Ukrainian Pontifical College of Saint Josaphat and studied at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), where he obtained bachelor's degrees in philosophy (1980–1982) and theology (1982–1985). He was ordained as a deacon on 14 September 1985 and as a priest on 28 July 1986. Both ordinations were made by Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk for the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg. After served as an assistan priest at the parish of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos in Winnipeg, he returned to Rome to study the Eastern Catholic canon law at the Pontifical Oriental Institute with the Doctorate in Canon Law degree.