Bishop Borys Gudziak received a degree in theology from Rome’s Urbaniana University in 1983 and then returned to America, where he earned a doctorate in Slavic and Byzantine Cultural History from Harvard University in 1992. In 1995 he received a licentiate degree in Eastern theology from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. He taught in 1992 and 1995 at the Mount Tabor summer program in California.