New members of the Permanent Synod were elected by the Synod of Bishops

Tuesday, 18 September 2012, 22:06

On Friday, the Synod of Bishops taking place in Portage la Prairie near Winnipeg in Canada, elected new members of its Permanent Synod. The Synod Fathers mandated the following bishops to serve as members of the Permanent Synod for the coming five years: Volodymyr (Viytyshyn), Archbishop and Metropolitan of Ivano-Frankivsk; Ken (Novakivsky), Eparch of New Westminster; Yaroslav (Pryriz), Eparch of Sambir-Drohobych; Borys (Gudziak), newly named Apostolic Exarch for Ukrainian Catholics in France, countries of Benelux and Switzerland.

His Beatitude Sviatoslav thanked the former members of the Permanent Synod: Bishop Ihor (Vozniak), Archbishop and Metropolitan of Lviv; Bishop Vasyl (Semeniuk), Archbishop and Metropolitan of Ternopil; Bishop Pavlo (Khomytsky), Eparch of Stamford and Bishop David (Motiuk), Eparch of Edmonton, for their willing and successful services and welcomed the newly-elected members of the Permanent Synod.

Note

The Permanent Synod is a group of bishops working under the patronage of the Patriarchal Synod and is the Advisory Council for the Head of the Church. The Cannon Code for Eastern Churches specifies that the Permanent Council be composed of the Patriarch and four bishops with a five-year term. Three of these members are chosen by the Synod of Bishops of the Patriarchal Church, of which at least two should be from among the eparchial bishops and one is nominated by the Patriarch (can.115 § 1,2,3).

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