Ternopil Pastor Receives Luxury House Near Lviv as a Gift

Ivan Pendylyshak, pastor of the Church of the Savior of Christ in Ternopil, has become the owner of a two-story mansion in Bryukhovychi, near Lviv. The property, measuring 491.3 m², along with a 0.1-hectare plot of land, was gifted to him under a donation agreement on June 4, 2025. Previously, the house had been listed for sale on OLX for USD 1.1 million. This was reported by Zaxid.Net.

Ivan Pendylyshak heads the Church of the Savior of Christ in Ternopil. In 2023, he called on parishioners to send donations for the church’s development to his personal account at PrivatBank. The official website of the church published his Russian-language sermons during 2022–2023, and in 2024 featured materials from the Bethlehem Missionary Church, registered in the United States. In one of his video addresses in Ukrainian, the pastor discussed the causes of the war and urged people “to be careful in statements about who is right.”

An advertisement for the house, published in February 2024, stated that it had been built to an individual design using expensive materials, including African redwood.

On the same day, Ivan Pendylyshak also acquired an adjacent plot of almost 0.07 hectares under a purchase agreement. According to the State Register of Property Rights, the pastor also owns significant real estate in Ternopil — three plots of land totaling over 0.11 hectares, two apartments measuring 36.2 m² and 59.5 m², and two houses measuring 71.8 m² and 575.4 m².

Earlier, it was reported that in the village of Surazh, Ternopil region, activists of the OCU were protesting against the construction of a Ukrainian Orthodox Church temple. Previously, in this village, supporters of the OCU had seized the local Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos from the UOC community. Since then, the UOC congregation has been forced to hold services in an adapted facility.