Bishop Mykycej was born in the peasant family of Vasyl and Mariya (née Martynyuk) Mykytsey in Horokholyna, Second Polish Republic /present-day in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. In 1938 his family emigrated to Paraguay and in 1945 was transferred to Argentina. After the attending of the Orionine Fathers minor seminary in Buenos Aires, Mykycey subsequently joined the Sons of Divine Providence, where he had a profession on February 12, 1954, and a solemn profession on February 11, 1961. He was ordained as priest on April 21, 1963,[1] after studies in the Orionists Theological Seminary in Argentina and following studies in Italy in the Pontifical Lateran University with a licentiate in theology.[2]
After returning from Italy, he served as teacher and subsequently director of the Don Orione Institute in Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña and in the same time made a pastoral work for the Ukrainian Greek-Catholics in the Northern Argentina.[2]
On June 23, 1990, Fr. Mykycej was nominated by Pope John Paul II and on October 14, 1990 consecrated to the Episcopate as an auxiliary bishop. The principal consecrator was Andrés Sapelak, the first bishop for Ukrainian Greek-Catholics in Argentina.[1]
