About us

Father Petro Maletskyi became the administrator of St. Andrew’s Mission in September 2025.

Father Petro was born in the village of Lenkivtsi, Kelmentsi district, Chernivtsi region. In 2004, he entered the Buchach Collegium named after Saint Hieromartyr Josaphat, where he lived and studied under the care of the Basilian monks for two years. From 2006 to 2013, he studied at the Ivano-Frankivsk Theological Seminary of Saint Hieromartyr Josaphat. During his studies, he actively participated in the Brotherhood of Saint Josaphat, which cared for orphanages, schools, and hospitals. In his third year, he was elected head of the Brotherhood. After his fifth year at the seminary, he also studied at the private King Danylo University of Law in Ivano-Frankivsk, where he earned a full higher education degree in theology and qualification as a teacher of philosophy and religious studies.

In 2014, he received diaconal and priestly ordinations from Metropolitan Volodymyr Viytyshyn. He was later appointed temporary administrator of the parishes of St. Paraskevia in the village of Kuropatnyky and St. George in the village of Ozeryany of the Burshtyn Deanery, Ivano-Frankivsk Eparchy. He was appointed associate priest of the parish of the Resurrection of Christ in the village of Lypivka of the Tysmenytsia Deanery, Ivano-Frankivsk Eparchy in 2017.

In 2023, he, together with his wife Nataliia and their three daughters — Anna, Anastasiia, and Anhelina — moved to Chicago, USA.

We thank God for the blessing of having Father Petro as our spiritual guide in St. Andrew the First-Called Mission!

Nicholas Mataya was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University in 2011 and his Master’s degree from Villanova University in 2013. After graduating, he moved to Swansea, Wales, UK, where he did post-graduate work and worked with the Theotokos Institute for Catholic Studies. He moved back to the United States in 2016 where he has since worked in a variety of classical schools as a teacher.

Nicholas first encountered the Ukrainian Catholic Church in high school, where he fell in love with its liturgy and theology. At different stages during his life, he has regularly travelled more than three hours to attend Ukrainian Catholic liturgy.

He was officially accepted into the Ukrainian Catholic Church by Bishop Hlib Lonchyna of the Eparchy of the Holy Family of London in 2014. He assisted with the founding of the (now-defunct) parish of St. Theodore of Tarsus in Cardiff, Wales, UK. He has been a regular member of St. Andrew the First-Called since 2021. He graduated from the Eparchy of St. Nicholas (Chicago)’s Mission Institute in 2025.

Nicholas lives in Universal City, Texas, with his wife, Rebecca, and their two daughters, Teresa and Sophia. When not teaching or at the parish, he coaches youth soccer and referees rugby. He is also heavily involved in disability advocacy due to his and his eldest daughter’s medical history.