Two new commissions have been created at the UGCC: the first for providing personnel, the second on the vocation and life of priests
Friday, 02 January 2009, 18:11 According to the decrees of His Beatitude Lubomyr, two new commissions have been created at the UGCC: the Commission for Personnel of the Kyiv and Halych Major Archbishopric and the Commission on Priestly Vocations, Life and Ministry of the Kyiv and Halych Major Archbishopric. The eighth issue of the "Herald of the Kyiv and Halych Major Archbishopric" for October – December 2008 has information about this. (You can learn more about the commissions which already exist in the UGCC at: www.ugcc.org.ua/39.0.html?&L=2).
According to the decrees of His Beatitude Lubomyr, two new commissions have been created at the UGCC: the Commission for Personnel of the Kyiv and Halych Major Archbishopric and the Commission on Priestly Vocations, Life and Ministry of the Kyiv and Halych Major Archbishopric. The eighth issue of the "Herald of the Kyiv and Halych Major Archbishopric" for October – December 2008 has information about this. (You can learn more about the commissions which already exist in the UGCC at: www.ugcc.org.ua/39.0.html?&L=2).
"The Commission for Personnel will be engaged in rationally sending students of our Church for higher studies (specialization). Its task is to produce the staff policy of the Church and to operate in according with this. Members of this commission have to watch so that in every branch of theological studies, in the area of the media and in social service, we have enough specialists. This commission operates at the level of the Kyiv and Halych Major Archbishopric, which means Ukraine." So His Beatitude Lubomyr explained in a comment for the Information Department of the UGCC. According to the Head of the UGCC, this commission, in addition, will collect a database about present specialists. "Our further purpose: through the mediation of the commission to decide all personnel questions of our eparchies in Ukraine. We want it so that a bishop in need of some specialist can easily solve this problem with the help of the Commission for Personnel of the Kyiv and Halych Major Archbishopric." So said His Beatitude Lubomyr. According to the decree of His Beatitude Lubomyr, Fr. Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., was appointed head of the commission.
His Beatitude Lubomyr also explained the necessity of creating the Commission on Priestly Vocations, Life and Ministry of the Kyiv and Halych Major Archbishopric. In fact the Church already has operating a Commission on Priestly Formation in Seminaries of the UGCC. "Priestly life begins with the vocation. Consequently, the future priest is formed and studies at a seminary, then receives the sacrament of priesthood and performs ministry. The program of searching for vocations, specifics of the ministry of priests, is closely related to a concrete country, with its specifics. Therefore a commission which would be engaged in these aspects of life has to be created in every locality. Therefore in Ukraine we have created the Commission on Priestly Vocations, Life and Ministry," the Head of the UGCC said.
Thus His Beatitude Lubomyr explained that common for all priests of the whole Church is the time of study at the seminary. The proper measures are therefore taken so that in all educational institutions of the world which are under the care of the UGCC where future pastors of the Church study there is an identical program of studies and education. "This means that every priest of the UGCC, without regard to the country of his studies, will have the same preparation, formation. This is necessary because we exchange priests: from Ukraine they go to North America or Argentina, Italy or Spain," the Head of the UGCC said. The head of the Patriarchal [church-wide – author] Commission on Priestly Formation in Seminaries of the UGCC is Bishop Ken (Nowakowski), Eparch of New Westminster (Canada).
Information Department of the UGCC
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