Interview with Military Chaplain Andriy Gul, Conducted in Kyiv, Ukraine, 5 November 2018 (UKR)

Abstract

Andriy Gul was born in 1990 in Kuropatniki, a village in the Ternopil region. Gul graduated from the Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy and was ordained a priest in 2015. After his ordination, Gul was sent to the Church of St. Nicholas in Kyiv as a full-time priest and later joined volunteers at the front following the beginning of the conflict in eastern of Ukraine. Since 2018 Gul has been chaplain of the Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Independent Presidential Regiment.