EWTN special on vocation boom in Ukrainian seminaries?

[notredame_999]

I saw a special a few months ago on EWTN on seminaries overflowing in Ukraine. I had some questions: 1.) What rite was this? and 2.) Presumably are these men married or single? 3.) If single, when do they get married? 4.) How are Catholics being treated in Ukraine/Russia right now?

 

[LDNCatholic]

This article doesn’t indicate whether it is UGCC or RCC but searching for the Eparchy of Sambir-Drohobych brings up this wikipedia article, would seem to be UGCC.

If UGCC they could be married or single.

If as the article states there are really 3 men vying for each place in some seminaries, then this is very good news.

If they are being turned away purely because of lack of room, I wonder could they enter an RC or other EC seminary and seek bi ritual status.

 

[Hesychios]

If they are being turned away purely because of lack of room, I wonder could they enter an RC or other EC seminary and seek bi ritual status.

I don’t know if I am reading your point right, so please forgive me if I misunderstand, but the seminary a man attends would not change what church he is ordained into.

If the man is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic attending an Armenian Catholic/ Maronite Catholic/Latin Catholic, seminary he would still be a Ukrainian Greek Catholic when he graduated, and that is the church he would be ordained into if he was accepted for ordination.

However, he might be able to obtain faculties in another church as well, he would still ordinarily remain a UGCC priest (with additional faculties) except under unusual or abnormal circumstances.

 

[LDNCatholic]

I don’t know if I am reading your point right, so please forgive me if I misunderstand, but the seminary a man attends would not change what church he is ordained into.

If the man is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic attending an Armenian Catholic/ Maronite Catholic/Latin Catholic, seminary he would still be a Ukrainian Greek Catholic when he graduated, and that is the church he would be ordained into if he was accepted for ordination.

However, he might be able to obtain faculties in another church as well, he would still ordinarily remain a UGCC priest (with additional faculties) except under unusual or abnormal circumstances.

Ah. My mistake. You read my post right, I am just not very familiar with the Eastern Churches (I wouldn’t have even known about Eastern Catholic Churches if it wasn’t for this site ), or, it seems, the seminary process.

Well then I suppose they would have already filled the Latin seminaries too. This is very good news.

 

[ConstantineTG]

A good question is if there are Latin seminaries in Ukraine, given that there are 4 Ukrainian Churches (1 Catholic, 1 Orthodox in the Orthodox communion, 2 Orthodox not in the Orthodox Communion), is there room for the Latin Rite in the predominantly Byzantine Rite country?

Also, would Orthodox and Catholics share a seminary? Given that most of the faith is the same

 

[Aramis]

If they are being turned away purely because of lack of room, I wonder could they enter an RC or other EC seminary and seek bi ritual status.

Not a Latin one… Other Byzantine ones, yes, by permission of their eparch and that seminary. The theological differences are sufficient to make it problematic to use a seminary of a different rite.

And seminaries are not supposed to train seminarians for anything other than the seminarian’s native rite. Combined seminaries ARE permitted… provided that they train each seminarian for his own church of enrollment, but it’s actively discouraged to have students trained in seminaries of a different rite.

 

[ciero]

Not a Latin one… Other Byzantine ones, yes, by permission of their eparch and that seminary. The theological differences are sufficient to make it problematic to use a seminary of a different rite.

And seminaries are not supposed to train seminarians for anything other than the seminarian’s native rite. Combined seminaries ARE permitted… provided that they train each seminarian for his own church of enrollment, but it’s actively discouraged to have students trained in seminaries of a different rite.

The Ruthenians here in the US are well known for sending seminarians to Latin seminaries. MANY of the priests of both Passaic and Pittsburgh were trained in Latin seminaries.

 

[ciero]

I saw a special a few months ago on EWTN on seminaries overflowing in Ukraine. I had some questions: 1.) What rite was this? and 2.) Presumably are these men married or single? 3.) If single, when do they get married? 4.) How are Catholics being treated in Ukraine/Russia right now?

If this is the same “special” EWTN has been airing…it is about 10 years out of date…unless they have come up with a new one.

 

[Little_Boy_Lost]

The Ruthenians here in the US are well known for sending seminarians to Latin seminaries. MANY of the priests of both Passaic and Pittsburgh were trained in Latin seminaries.

That’s weird. Don’t the Ruthenians have their own seminary?

 

[ciero]

That’s weird. Don’t the Ruthenians have their own seminary?

They sure do! But the bishops have not always supported the seminary, they would send vocations to other seminaries rather then support their own.