Rev. John Sembrat

Rev. John Sembrat [Іван Сембрат], born in 1943 near Scranton, PA, and attended SS. Cyril and Methodius Church in Olyphant, PA. He was ordained into the priesthood 29 years later at that very same parish. He received his musical training in composition and harmony back in the 1960s at Don Bosco College (Newton, NJ) and later at the Manhattan School of Music (White Plains, NY). More recently, in 2014, he composed an Easter setting of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom for male voices and engaged over 50 professional and amateur choristers from across Canada and Ukraine to produce the recording. Today Father John makes his home in Vegreville, Alberta.