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- 11 January 2016 14:36
- Attendance at Christmas Services More Than Usual. Cathedral Seemed Too Small On The Day The North Melbourne Cathedral needed to be bigger for the day. It was standing room only, many were outside. A quick survey of the Eparchial churches showed that most of our churches were full for the 7th January Christmas Day services. This is normal for Christmas and Easter attendance. Fr. Stefan Sapun of Brisbane said that he was very pleased with the...
- 08 January 2016 17:46
- The Head of the UGCC: “Ideology, called “gender” wants to destroy the family institution” In a modern culture the family institution is attempted by new, maybe even worse dangers, than it was in the days of Christ birth… It was declared by the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav on the second day of Christmas holidays, on Synaxis of Theotokos, during his homily to the faithful at the Patriarchal...
- 07 January 2016 14:16
- The Head of the UGCC on Christmas: “When God touches a human in His Nativity, their fear turns into hope” Today Christ’s Church is celebrating one of the greatest Christian holidays – holiday of birth of Son of God in a human’s body, who comes to save a human from sin and death. In the books of Scriptures we read that the only Son of God who was born from God Father, Who, before the creating of world was the one through Who and for Whom this world appeared. We confess the...
- 29 December 2015 01:57
- UGCC Head proclaimed ecumenical concept of UGCC Synod of Bishops of the UGCC, held in Ivano-Frankivsk from August 31 to September 6, 2015, discussed and approved for the term of five years the Ecumenical Concept of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The document was published by the Information Department on December 25
- 20 December 2015 23:01
- In Przemyśl was held a Consecration of Archbishop Yevgen Myroslav (Popovych) December 19th, 2015 in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Przemyśl, the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church His Beatitude Sviatoslav celebrated a Divine Liturgy and appointed Archbishop Yevgen (Popovych) for the Metropolitan throne.
- 17 December 2015
  16:56
- Instruction for conducting canonical visitation of the UGCC Parish by the Bishop will take effect soon Two months after the publication on the official website of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church the Instruction for conducting the canonical visitation of the UGCC Parish by the diocesan bishop, approved by the Synod of Bishops, held in Ivano-Frankivsk on August 31 - September 6, 2015 will come into effect soon....
- 16 December 2015 09:53
- Eparchial Conference on Church Governance About 50 delegates from across our Eparchy from Auckland to Perth gathered in Melbourne on 8th-9th December 2015 for a comprehensive conference on the future of the Eparchy.
- 12 December 2015 16:39
- In Ternopil the Head of the UGCC consecrated a memorial desk to Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky On 10th of December, at the Cathedral of the Annunciation thousands of Ternopil citizens were greeting the Head and Father of the UGCC who arrived to hold a service for Ukraine and consecrate a memorial desk to metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky.
- 07 December 2015 11:52
- The Head of the UGCC: “Our greatest tyrant and enslaver is selfishness – the source of our grief” Only a nation who loves its neighbors can be a free nation, looking attentively and bravely into the eyes of history and with all abilities and strengths build up a future in God. It was said by His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Father and Head of the UGCC in his homily to the faithful during the consecration of the Temple of Nativity of the Mother of God in Irpen (Kyiv...
- 30 November 2015 10:52
- UGCC Head to authority: Do not deprive people of their last livelihoods His Beatitude Sviatoslav urged Ukrainian authorities not to shift the burden of the current problems on the shoulders of the weakest and most vulnerable people.
- 27 November 2015 10:26
- “The bishops of the Roman Catholic Church and Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church seek to jointly celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the arrival in Ukraine of the holy Pope John Paul II”, - the Head of the UGCC An important topic of our discussion was a joint celebration of the Year of Divine Mercy, which was declared by the Pope Francis in the whole Catholic Church. We exchanged various initiatives on His common experience, recalling the positive atmosphere of the last joint conference of the monkhood of the UGCC and the RCC, which was held recently. So, we...
- 24 November 2015 15:31
- His Beatitude Sviatoslav consecrated a new church in Zhytomyr On 22nd of November, the Head and Father of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav consecrated a new-built temple of Holy Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Basilian woman’s monastery in Zhytomyr.
- 20 November 2015 16:52
- The Head of the UGCC met with the representatives of “Self Reliance” November 19th, in Kyiv His Beatitude Sviatoslav met with the representatives of “Self Reliance”, fraction of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
- 17 November 2015 11:10
- His Beatitude Sviatoslav Visits Cathedral in Philadelphia His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk celebrated Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Sunday, November 15, 2015 in Philadelphia, PA.
- 15 November 2015 15:53
- The Head of the UGCC visited Ukrainian school in the USA His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Head of the UGCC visited the Parish of Saint Nicholas of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Minnersville, USA, to greet children who go to the Ukrainian church.

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We can imagine what the prayer of the prisoners in the Russian torture centers in the Ukrainian Kharkiv region was like – Head of the UGCC on the 206th day of the war 17 September

A vast cemetery, a mass burial, was found near the city of Izyum, in which more than 400 innocently killed and tortured people have already been...

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