Type: | Bishop |
Honorific Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Bryan Bayda | |
Bishop of Toronto and Eastern Canada | |
Native Name: | Bryan Bayda |
Church: | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Toronto and Eastern Canada |
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Ordination: | May 30, 1987 |
Ordained By: | Bishop Basil Filevich |
Consecration: | June 27, 2008 |
Consecrated By: | Lawrence Huculak, O.S.B.M. |
Birth Name: | Bryan Joseph Bayda |
Birth Date: | 21 August 1961 |
Birth Place: | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada |
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Honorific Suffix: | C.Ss.R. |
Bryan Joseph Bayda (born August 21, 1961 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is the bishop of the Eparchy of Toronto and Eastern Canada in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
Bayda was born in Saskatoon on August 21, 1961. Upon completing high school at St. Vladimir's College Minor Seminary in Roblin, Manitoba, he pursued studies at the University of St. Michael's College in Toronto, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy in 1982 and a Master of Divinity in 1987. Further studies included a Bachelor of Education from the University of Manitoba in 1990 and a Diploma in Eastern Christian theology from the Sheptytsky Institute in Ottawa in 1997.
Pope Benedict XVI appointed Bayda as the Eparch of Saskatoon on May 2, 2008. He was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the Eparchy of Toronto and Eastern Canada on November 9, 2019 by Pope Francis. On April 28, 2022, Pope Francis appointed him as bishop of the same eparchy. [1]