NEWS of the UGCC news

- 10 October 2015 19:34
- "Just peace is considered to be Ukraine's victory" – the Head of the UGCC UGCC is consistently denouncing Russian aggression against Ukraine and considers unacceptable forming the image of Ukrainian as an enemy of the Russian people, attaching different labels on those who defend the right of the existence of Ukraine as an independent state.
- 05 October 2015 17:35
- Bishop Bohdan (Danylo) Ordained Two New Priests and Blessed the Renewed Cathedral Domes in Parma, Ohio (USA) On October 1, 2015 – solemn feast day of the Protection of the Theotokos – Bishop Bohdan Danylo, Eparch of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of St. Josaphat in Parma, ordained two new priests in the Cathedral of Saint Josaphat in Parma, Ohio. Deacon Alex Wroblicky and Deacon Joseph Matlak were ordained to the Sacred Priesthood during the moving Pontifical...
- 03 October 2015 18:45
- His Beatitude Sviatoslav was invited to visit Dzhublyk On the 1st of October, father Atanasiy Chyipesh, prior of the monastery of the Assembly of Mother of God, Greek-Catholic Church Eparchy of Mukachevo and couple of Maryana and Mykhailo Romaniv visited His Beatitude Sviatoslav at his residence nearby Patriarchal Cathedral in Kyiv.
- 02 October 2015 10:35
- The Head of the UGCC and the leader of the parliamentary faction of "Samopomich" (“Self Reliance”) discussed the amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine On 1 October, 2015 at His residence near the Patriarchal Cathedral in Kyiv, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Head of the UGCC, met with Oleg Berezyuk, the people's deputy of Ukraine, leader of the parliamentary faction "Samopomich" (“Self Reliance”).
- 30 September 2015 13:00
- St. Anne’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Austintown, OH (USA) held its annual Ukrainian Festival On 27 September 2015, St. Anne’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Austintown, OH held its annual Ukrainian Festival. The celebration began at 12 pm with a prayer led by Father Lubomyr Zhybak, Administrator of St. Anne’s Church (and of Holy Trinity Church in Youngstown). In addition to the delicious Ukrainian dishes, the festival’s guests were able to enjoy...
- 30 September 2015 10:02
- In Czech Republic the Head of the UGCC prayed to a saint Wenceslaus for peace and blessings for Europe and Ukraine I have a big honor of praying with you today to a saint Wenceslaus, a founder of a Christian statehood on Czech lands. More than a thousand years Czech people have been praying to a saint Wenceslaus with the words: “Do not let us die!” Today it has become a prayer of Ukrainian people, as well.
- 29 September 2015 12:24
- A new edition of Josyph Slipyj was brought out in Kyiv On September 25, on basis of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy was presented the first book written by Yaroslav Pelikan “The Confessor between East and West, A Portrait of the Ukrainian Cardinal Josyph Slipyj”. An event occurred in the frame of XV International Theological Dormition Readings on the topic “Truth, Memory, Reconciliation.” ...
- 28 September 2015 11:05
- The Head of the UGCC wished President Petro Poroshenko to worship God and Ukraine above all On behalf of all Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church heartily congratulated the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko with his 50th birthday anniversary, sending him the most sincere wishes.
- 26 September 2015 13:37
- The Head of the UGCC charged priests to expound each community on Catechism “Christ – our Pascha” The Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav reminded priests not to forget about their status of being the first catechists, teachers of the righteous life at their parishes. Therefore, they are obliged to initiate and guide the whole catechistic process which should embrace all the parishioners....
- 25 September 2015 12:56
- The Head of the UGCC thanked the Apostolic Nuncio for his service to the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Head of the UGCC, and Bishop Josyph (Milian) with religious representatives visited Archbishop Thomas Edward Gullickson, Apostolic Nuncio, on completion of His diplomatic service in Ukraine.
- 24 September 2015 12:32
- His Beatitude Sviatoslav thanked Austrian journalists for their wish to find out the truth about a situation in Ukraine From September 21-25 in Ukraine is staying a group of Austrian journalists who came to get to know more about Ukraine. Father Yuriy Kolasa, a general vicar of Byzantine rite in Austria, who is accompanying journalists during their trip, has informed UGCC Department of Information about it.
- 23 September 2015 12:51
- The Head of the UGCC: "It seems that politicians and authorities no longer hear civil society" Today in Ukrainian society we have extremely huge part of healthy structural forces that, just as in the time of Maidan, can organize themselves to protect their homeland, to help the needy. But we all extremely need a format in which we, together, could do it. It was said by the Father and the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church His Beatitude...
- 22 September 2015 12:35
- The Primate of the Church: "The birth of Mary gives the sprout of new life and new hope" The Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary opens a new liturgical year of the Church. On this day the whole Church of Christ with their spiritual eyes is flying to the Holy Land, the city of Nazareth. There, in the family of Joachim and Anna the Lord gives a child - Mary. However, this day is a celebration of hope of all mankind. From today a new page of...
- 18 September 2015 14:51
- His Beatitude Sviatoslav met with Ukrainian pilgrims in a Holy Land The Father and the Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church on September 15, during his staying in Bethlehem met with a group of 160 people from Ukraine who arrived to a Holy Land to pray for peace in Ukraine.
- 16 September 2015 15:15
- Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine:"Associated Assembly of Monkhood of the UGCC and the RCC speaks for unity" This is a great success that such an associated Assembly of ordained people of the UGCC and RCC started. Thus monkhood, gathered together, gives the testimony of unity to other people.

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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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