Bishop Artur Bubnevych was born June in 1975 in a little town called Perechin of the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine. He graduated from Uzhgorod Greek Catholic Seminary of the Blessed Theodore Romzha in 1998. He was ordained to minor orders, including the subdiaconate in 1999. He earned an advanced theological degree from the International Theological Institute in Gaming, Austria in 2001. He worked as a project secretary at the Chancery of the Eparchy of Mukachevo from 2006 to 2013. He also taught English at the Greek Catholic Seminary.
In September 2013 at the invitation of our Bishop Gerald he came to our Eparchy of Phoenix with the blessing of Bishop Milan of Mukachevo to minister in our Eparchy and to serve in a pastoral capacity as assigned by the Bishop. He was ordained to diaconate on March 9, 2014, and on September 14, 2014, to priesthood at St Stephen’s Cathedral in Phoenix. On January 8, 2015 he was assigned a pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Albuquerque New Mexico.
On 8 November 2024, Bubnevych was appointed eparch of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of the Holy Protection of Mary of Phoenix, succeeding Bishop John Stephen Pazak. He was consecrated and enthroned on 28 January 2025 at Annunciation Byzantine Catholic Church in Anaheim. The principal consecrator was Archbishop William C. Skurla, with Bishop Kurt Burnette and Bishop Robert Mark Pipta as principal co-consecrators.
