\"God\'s power was revealed in a weakness. After the 43 years in the underground it was not easy to start from the beginning on a desolate land and with wounded souls. Patriarch Myroslav Lubachivsky loved the church and Ukraine. Ten years have passed since his death and we can boldly say that a holy hierarch, humble and the wise, has departed from us. He cherished and lived by this humble wisdom,\" said Fr. Ivan Datsko, Ph.D., in a memorial speech at the Pontifical Divine Liturgy. The occasion was the tenth anniversary of the death of Major Archbishop Myroslav Lubachivsky, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in 1984-2000. The liturgy was held on December 14, 2010, at the Lviv St. George’s Cathedral." />

The UGCC honors the memory of His Beatitude Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky

Wednesday, 15 December 2010, 21:39
"God's power was revealed in a weakness. After the 43 years in the underground it was not easy to start from the beginning on a desolate land and with wounded souls. Patriarch Myroslav Lubachivsky loved the church and Ukraine. Ten years have passed since his death and we can boldly say that a holy hierarch, humble and the wise, has departed from us. He cherished and lived by this humble wisdom," said Fr. Ivan Datsko, Ph.D., in a memorial speech at the Pontifical Divine Liturgy. The occasion was the tenth anniversary of the death of Major Archbishop Myroslav Lubachivsky, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in 1984-2000. The liturgy was held on December 14, 2010, at the Lviv St. George’s Cathedral.
"God's power was revealed in a weakness. After the 43 years in the underground it was not easy to start from the beginning on a desolate land and with wounded souls. Patriarch Myroslav Lubachivsky loved the church and Ukraine. Ten years have passed since his death and we can boldly say that a holy hierarch, humble and the wise, has departed from us. He cherished and lived by this humble wisdom," said Fr. Ivan Datsko, Ph.D., in a memorial speech at the Pontifical Divine Liturgy. The occasion was the tenth anniversary of the death of Major Archbishop Myroslav Lubachivsky, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in 1984-2000. The liturgy was held on December 14, 2010, at the Lviv St. George’s Cathedral. A native of Ivano-Frankivsk, Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky was the first in the history of UGCC to be ordained as bishop by Pope John Paul II. The event was held in 1979 with the participation of Patriarch Joseph Slipyj at the Sistine Chapel of St Peter's Basilica in Rome. On March 30, 1991, the 77-year-old Patriarch Myroslav headed the UGCC revival in Ukraine, becoming the successor to the two giants of the twentieth century – Andrey Sheptytsky and Patriarch Slipyj. Fr. Ivan Datsko, head of religious society Saint Sofia, described the merits of Patriarch Myroslav: restoration of the Lviv Theological Seminary, moving the Ukrainian Catholic University from Rome to Ukraine, the establishment of mosaic images in the Roman St. Sophia Church. Attempts by some authorities to limit the UGCC only to the three eparchies of the Galicia province was overcome by Myroslav Lubachivsky, who established a special working group and proved the necessity and importance of the existence of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church throughout the country. 

Information Department of the UGCC

Biographical information Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky was Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia in the United States and from 1984 Major Archbishop of Lviv and head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC). He was ordained a priest of the Archeparchy of Lviv in 1938 by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and then continued his doctoral studies in theology in Austria. After World War II, he was unable to return to Ukraine and emigrated to the United States, where he continued his pastoral work, first as a priest at St. Peter and Paul Church in Cleveland, Ohio, beginning in 1949, and then from 1968 as a teacher at the St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in Washington. He also taught at St. Basil's College in Philadelphia and St. Basil's Academy in Stamford, Connecticut, before being ordained archbishop of Philadelphia in 1979. Pope John Paul II appointed Lubachivsky coadjutor to Cardinal Josyf Slipyj in 1979. Upon Cardinal Slipyj's death in 1984, he took over as head of the UGCC. In 1985, Pope John Paul II gave him the title of Cardinal Priest of S. Sofia a Via Boccea. Soviet authorities lifted the ban against the church in 1989, and Lubachivsky along with other leaders of the UGCC officially returned to Lviv from exile on March 30, 1991. Lubachivsky is buried in St. George's Cathedral in Lviv.
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