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(Lviv, Ukraine, 25 March 2011) Most Reverend Sviatoslav Shevchuk has been elected Major Archbishop [Patriarch] at an Electoral Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Lviv/Bruhovitchi 21-24 March 2011, in accord with the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches and the Particular Law of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC). His…
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New Westminster, 10 February 2011 – Today His Holiness Benedict XVI announced that he has accepted the resignation of His Beatitude Lubomyr Cardinal Husar, father and head of the Ukrainian (Greek) Catholic Church and major archbishop of Kyiv-Halych in accordance with 126 § 2 of the Code of Canons of the Oriental Churches. (Canon 126…
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SAMBIR, Ukraine, FEB. 4, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Ukrainian seminaries are having to turn away up to half of the young men seeking to become priests due to a lack of space. Coadjutor Bishop Jaroslav Pryriz of the Eparchy of Sambir-Drohobych reported to Aid to the Church in Need that in some places, there are three candidates…
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Make ready, O Zabulon, and prepare yourself, O Nephtali; O River Jordan, stop and receive with joy the Master coming to be baptized. O Adam, rejoice with the first mother, Eve, and do not hide yourselves as before in Paradise. For, having seen you unclothed, Christ has appeared to clothe you with the first robe;…
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To the Very Reverend Clergy, Monastics and Religious Sisters, Seminarians and Laity of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada: Our Saviour, the rising Sun, more brilliant than any other sun, has visited us today from on high. We once were in darkness and the shadow of error, but now we have found the truth; for…