Father Myron was born on February 7, 1941, in Indiana. He became a religious in 1964 and was ordained a priest in 1972. He holds a master's degree in astronomy from Cornell University in New York. He has spent most of his life in vocation work and teaching science in seminaries. In 1992, he was incardinated in the Apostolic Administration of Novosibirsk, arriving in Vladivostok in February 1992. As dean of the Deanery of Vladivostok, he answers for a region of four states whose area is about as big as California, Washington, and Oregon combined. As pastor, he has five parishes with a combined area about the same size as the state of Washington.

Fr. Myron comes to the States every year to speak about the Vladivostok mission.

 

Fr. Myron poses with Fr. Benedict Groeschel, one of the board members of Mary Mother of God Mission Society.

 

Fr. Myron and parishioners at Arsenyev.

 

Fr. Myron and a parishioner at the 2002 International Student Conference of the Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service.