Ihor Rantsya

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Ihor Rantsya (Ukrainian: Ігор Ранця; born 8 March 1978) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, currently serving as the Eparchial Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Volodymyr the Great of Paris, overseeing faithful in France, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. He was appointed by Pope Leo XIV on 1 October 2025 and consecrated on 18 December 2025. Ihor Rantsya was born on 8 March 1978 in Opilsko, present-day Sheptytskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast, then part of the Ukrainian SSR. He completed his secondary education locally before enrolling at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, where he earned both a master's degree and a doctorate in geography and subsequently worked as a lecturer. In 2008, he entered the Lviv Theological Seminary and simultaneously studied theology at the Ukrainian Catholic University, earning a master's degree in theology. From 2014 to 2015, he continued his studies at the Catholic Institute of Paris, obtaining a licentiate in ecumenical theology and completing doctoral research in theology. Rantsya was ordained a deacon on 19 June 2014, and a priest on 29 March 2015 by Ihor Vozniak in Paris for service in France, but with the incardination into the Archeparchy of Lviv. Following ordination, he served in pastoral ministry within the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Volodymyr the Great of Paris. He was rector of All Saints Parish in Vincennes (2016–2019), parish vicar, and later administrator of the cathedral parish in Paris. He coordinated the eparchial commission for ecumenism and interreligious relations and served on the Pastoral Council of the Patriarchal Curia of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.