NEWS of the UGCC news

- 19 April 2010
  03:06
- In Sambir’s juvenile facility a cross and the cornerstone of a new chapel were blessed A few days ago the cross and cornerstone of a new chapel in Sambir’s juvenile correctional facility were blessed. Bishop Julian (Voronovskyj), Eparch of Sambir and Drohobych of the UGCC, led the divine celebration. Mrs. Oksana Kostenko, the deputy of Archbishop Augustine on questions of prison chaplaincy, was also present....
- 19 April 2010
  02:59
- Patriarch Lubomyr congratulated Obnova on its 80th anniversary With hierarchal benediction and wishes of many God’s graces in realizing its ideals, the head of the UGCC addressed the participants of the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the academic association Obnova (renewal), reported in the office of Major Archbishop. The greeting of His Beatitude Lubomyr was read on the anniversary celebration which took...
- 15 April 2010
  12:21
- Head of the UGCC presented his second audio book The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church His Beatitude Lubomyr presented his second audio book called “The Road to Thy Neighbor.” The presentation, which took place in the in the Kyiv bookstore Ye [Є], began with an irmos performed by the vocalist of group Gorgisheli. As a correspondent of UNIAN informs, the audio book is presented in the form of an...
- 15 April 2010
  12:14
- Odesa residents remember the founder of their Greek Catholic community On April 11, 2010, the day of honoring the Rev. Illya Klyvak, the founder of the Greek Catholic community of the city who ministered in South Palmyra in 1917-1918, was marked in Odesa. “April 10 marks 68 years since the death of Odesa’s pastor,” said the chancellor of Odesa-Crimean Exarchate the Rev. Volodymyr Zhdan....
- 15 April 2010
  12:12
- Premiere of documentary “The UGCC: The Unknown Chronicle” to take place in Lviv On April 13, 2010, in the Lviv Palace of Arts at 4:00 p.m. the premiere showing of the documentary film “The UGCC: the Unknown Chronicle” will take place. The project was produced by the advertising and production center Star-TV on the initiative of the Lviv Archeparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and with the support of the patron of the arts...
- 13 April 2010
  01:11
- Head of the UGCC His Beatitude Lubomyr will present his second audio book At noon on April 14, 2010, in the Kyiv bookstore Ye [Є] (3 Lysenko St.), Patriarch Lubomyr (Husar), head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, will presents his second audio book “The Road to Thy Neighbor.” The distinguished Ukrainian journalist, director of the TV channel TVi Mykola Knyazhytskyj who interviewed the hierarch for the audio book will also...
- 13 April 2010
  01:08
- Memorial service held in Kyiv for the deceased in the plane crash near Smolensk The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), Patriarch Lubomyr (Husar), on April 11, 2010, participated in the memorial service for the repose of the Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and all the members of the delegation who perished in the plane crash near Smolensk in Russia. The service was headed by Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine...
- 13 April 2010
  01:04
- Changes in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Eparchy of the Protection of the Mother of God in Argentina On April 10, 2010, the Vatican informed that Pope Benedict XVI accepted the renunciation from the Government of Eparches of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Eparchy of the Protection of the Mother of God in Argentina, given by the Bishop Miguel (Mykytcej), in accordance with the orders of canon 210 § 1 of Code of Canons of Eastern Churches....
- 12 April 2010
  07:35
- News from the Pastoral Care Service of the UGCC As was reported earlier, the association “Art and Prison” named two Ukrainians among the winners of the international competition of prisoners “With the Eyes of the Others,” which was conducted in Berlin. Diana Kamlyuk took second place for her work “Opiyna Prirva” and Serhiy Gura became a finalist with his sculpture “Kozatskomu Rodu Nema Perevodu.” To...
- 09 April 2010
  10:57
- In his Easter sermon the head of the UGCC called Christians to unite His Beatitude Lubomyr Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in his Easter Hierarchal Divine Liturgy on April 4 in the St. Basil the Great Church in Kyiv expressed the importance to consider the division in the Christian world and to find a way to overcome the separation. “This year according to all Christian calendars the...
- 06 April 2010
  01:32
- The Easter interview of His Beatitude Lubomyr to be aired on Sunday on Channel 5 On the occasion of Christ’s Resurrection His Beatitude Lubomyr, head of the UGCC, gave an interview to the anchor of Channel 5 Pavlo Kuzheyev. The Easter meetings of His Beatitude Lubomyr with the viewers of the TV channel have became tradition in the last few years. As a response to a journalist’s question about what useful experience Ukrainians can...
- 06 April 2010
  01:20
- Celebration of the Holy and Glorious Feast of Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ at the St. Vladimir's cathedral in Stamford At the early dawn of Easter Sunday April 4, 2010, His Excellency Bishop Paul Chomnycky, OSBM, eparch of Stamford, at the Paschal Matins intoned “Christ is risen from the death! By death He conquered Death, and to those in the graves He granted life” and thus begun celebration of the Glorious Feast of Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ at St. Vladimir’s...
- 06 April 2010
  01:12
- Saint Vladimir's Cathedral Community begun the Triduum Paschale Celebration On Good Friday, April 2, 2010, His Excellency Bishop Paul Chomnycky, OSBM, Eparch of Stamford, His Excellency Bishop Basil H. Losten, eparch emeritus, accompanied by Very Rev. Mitred Archpriest Ihor Midzak, St. Vladimir’s Cathedral rector, Very Rev. Archpriest Bohdan Danylo, St. Basil’s College Seminary rector, and Rev. Maxim Kobasuk, OSBM,...
- 03 April 2010
  05:10
- Minister of Defense supports military chaplaincy in Ukraine of military chaplaincy On March 30 the Minister of Defense Mykhailo Ezhel expressed his support for military priests ministering in the army during a briefing in the House of Government, reports the Institute of Religious Freedom.
- 03 April 2010
  05:01
- Salesian care at the Social Hotel In Lviv, on 163a Horodotska St., opened the Social Hotel, a city dormitory for orphans, half- orphans, and children without parental care. This institution is the first in the Lviv Oblast that cares for the needs of students and aims to provide them with a place to live as well as Christian education and guardianship....

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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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