Archpriest Vasyl Babych was born in 1986 in the village of Chumalevo, Zakarpattia region of Ukraine, into a family of Orthodox Christians.
In 2003, he entered the Uzhhorod Ukrainian Theological Academy of Saints Cyril and Methodius (in 2009 he defended his master’s thesis on the topic “Mariological Dogmas in the Light of Orthodox Teaching”) and also studied at the Carpathian University named after Augustine Voloshin, majoring in Philosophy and Religious Studies. In 2007, he entered the Moscow Theological Seminary, which he graduated from in 2012 after defending his thesis on “The Messianic Prophecies of the Book of the Prophet Isaiah.” From 2012 to 2015, he studied at the Moscow Theological Academy.
Since 2016, he has served as a cleric of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church: on May 21, he was ordained a deacon by Metropolitan Mark (Petrovtsi) of Khust and Vynohradiv, and on June 8 of the same year, he was ordained a priest. From 2016 to 2024, he served as rector of the Holy Protection Church in the village of Chumalevo in Zakarpattia. From 2019 to 2024, he headed the Publishing Department of the Khust Diocese.
In 2024, he was received into the clergy of the Slavic Vicariate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and since then he has been serving as rector of the Life-Giving Spring Orthodox Church in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Father Vasyl is married; together with his wife, Matushka Adriana, he is raising a daughter.