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ciero
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Looks like the UGCC has a new Patriarch! Axios!
unian.net/ukr/news/news-427616.html
unian.net/ukr/news/news-427616.html
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malphono
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Since I don’t read Kyrilica very well, I’ll take your word for it. 
Axios!
Axios!
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dzheremi
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From what I can tell (via worn-out Russian and a lot of straining, since it’s Ukrainian), the bishop of Buenos Aires, Bishop Svyatislav (Svechuk), has been elected as head of the UGCC. Is that right?
Anyway, many years to the new Patriarch!
Anyway, many years to the new Patriarch!
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ciero
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Sorry I thought I posted the English translation…I will when I get back from Vespers…Happy Annunciation!Since I don’t read Kyrilica very well, I’ll take your word for it.
Axios!
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ciero
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Had time now…so here it is.
An electronic translation reads:
Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church elected Bishop of Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), which is currently the administrator of the diocese apostle of the Holy Virgin in Buenos Aires.
This UNIAN reported a source in the Church.
Officially, the information in the Department of Information Church does not deny nor confirm.
Bishop Svyatoslav (Shevchuk) in 2002-2005 worked as head of the secretariat and the personal secretary of Beatitude Lubomir (Husar), head of the Patriarchal Curia in.
January 14, 2009 Pope Benedict XVI appointed Svyatoslav SHEVCHUK Auxiliary Bishop Diocese of the Holy Virgin in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
April 10, 2010 Sviatoslav Shevchuk appointed apostolic administrator of the Diocese of the Holy Virgin in Buenos Aires.
As UNIAN reported earlier, according to unofficial information, today, on the fourth day of the Electoral Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church elected head of Church. However, the official Vatican confirmation of choice, the person’s new head of Church is not disclosed. Now waiting for a response from Church of the Apostolic capital.
Recently, His Eminence Cardinal Husar was the Primate of the Church powers. 78-year old cardinal led the Ukrainian Greek Catholics in 2001. Although the title given for life Primate, Cardinal Husar himself appealed to the Vatican asking for dismissal in connection with deteriorating health.
March 21, 2011 in Bryukhovychi started near Lviv Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which elected a new head of the Church.
The work of the Synod, headed by an administrator Church Bishop Igor (Voznyak) involved 40 Bishops from Ukraine and abroad (Western Europe, USA, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and Australia).
The enthronement of the new head of Church will be held March 27 at 10.00 in the Patriarchal cobori Resurrection in Kyiv. At the ceremony, invited about a thousand guests. That representatives of all dioceses and Exarchate Church, state and local authorities, local and international NGOs and different faiths and religious organizations.
An electronic translation reads:
Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church elected Bishop of Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), which is currently the administrator of the diocese apostle of the Holy Virgin in Buenos Aires.
This UNIAN reported a source in the Church.
Officially, the information in the Department of Information Church does not deny nor confirm.
Bishop Svyatoslav (Shevchuk) in 2002-2005 worked as head of the secretariat and the personal secretary of Beatitude Lubomir (Husar), head of the Patriarchal Curia in.
January 14, 2009 Pope Benedict XVI appointed Svyatoslav SHEVCHUK Auxiliary Bishop Diocese of the Holy Virgin in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
April 10, 2010 Sviatoslav Shevchuk appointed apostolic administrator of the Diocese of the Holy Virgin in Buenos Aires.
As UNIAN reported earlier, according to unofficial information, today, on the fourth day of the Electoral Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church elected head of Church. However, the official Vatican confirmation of choice, the person’s new head of Church is not disclosed. Now waiting for a response from Church of the Apostolic capital.
Recently, His Eminence Cardinal Husar was the Primate of the Church powers. 78-year old cardinal led the Ukrainian Greek Catholics in 2001. Although the title given for life Primate, Cardinal Husar himself appealed to the Vatican asking for dismissal in connection with deteriorating health.
March 21, 2011 in Bryukhovychi started near Lviv Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which elected a new head of the Church.
The work of the Synod, headed by an administrator Church Bishop Igor (Voznyak) involved 40 Bishops from Ukraine and abroad (Western Europe, USA, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and Australia).
The enthronement of the new head of Church will be held March 27 at 10.00 in the Patriarchal cobori Resurrection in Kyiv. At the ceremony, invited about a thousand guests. That representatives of all dioceses and Exarchate Church, state and local authorities, local and international NGOs and different faiths and religious organizations.
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ConstantineTG
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I read in another source there’s no official announcement yet as the name has been sent to the Vatican for the Pope’s approval.
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ciero
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If they’ve set a date for his enthronement, it official.
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ConstantineTG
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Its not official unless the Pope approves. Although I don’t think there is any reason for the Pope not to approve.
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countertenor
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Does the fact that the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches requires the elect to seek confirmation from Rome, make anyone else want to vomit?
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ConstantineTG
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The bigger issue here for me is that this step is necessary because the Catholic Church doesn’t officially recognize the head of the UGCC as a Patriarch, but rather a Major Archbishop. Had he been an officially recognized Patriarch, then notification of Rome is only a formality and its only a notification. No approvals needed.
Its an injustice that the head of the largest Eastern Catholic Church sui juris is not recognized a Patriarch outside of his own sui juris Church.
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crazzeto
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Prayers for the new Patriarch!
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Formosus
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Approval from Rome aside, if we are really serious about being a patriarchate, then we have to act like it. Many years to the patriarch elect whoever he may be (I assume +Sviatoslav is tho ).
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KyivAndrew
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From an interview with Lubomyr Cardinal Husar in Ukrainian posted today in Ukraine:
Сьогодні в УГКЦ не знайти тих, хто б не підтримував ідею Патріархату, – владика Любомир (Гузар)
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На його думку, сьогодні в УГКЦ не знайти тих, хто б не підтримував ідею Патріархату: «Я вам приведу такий приклад. Коли я приїхав до Італії, то тоді слово «Патріархат» не можна було голосно сказати, бо тебе одразу починали підозрювати в намірі відірватися від Католицької Церкви. Мовляв, ти майбутній єретик. А сьогодні ми спокійно обговорюємо з Папою питання патріархату. Починаючи від Івана Павла II, і зараз з Бенедиктом XVІ ми уже говоримо як це здійснити, втілити в життя», – сказав Блаженніший Любомир.
«Мене часто питають: «А коли буде Патріархат?». Для мене особисто питання часу уже не грає ролі, я знаю, що це буде…. Покійний Іван Павло ІІ казав про наші потуги: «Ваша свята настирливість». Ми справді робимо все, щоби пришвидшити цей процес», – наголосив Блаженніший Любомир".
My translation into English:
**Today in the UGCC you will not find anyone who would not support the idea of a Patriarchate - Bishop Lubomyr (Husar)
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His Beatitude Lubomyr stated: " I will give you the following example. When I came to Italy the word “Patriarchate” could not be said aloud, because immediately one was suspected of intending to leave the Catholic Church. As if you were a possible heretic. But today we calmly discuss with the Pope the question of the patriarchate. Starting with John Paul II, and now with Benedict XVI, we are already discussing how to actualize it, to put it into life."
“I am often asked: ‘And when a Patriarchate?’ For me personally the question of time doesn’t play a role, I know that it [Patriarchate] will be. The late John Paul II said of our efforts: ‘Your sacred struggle’. We honestly are doing everything to accelerate this process,” emphasized His Beatitude Lubomyr.
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risu.org.ua/ua/index/all_news/catholics/ugcc/41414/
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ConstantineTG
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Now is a good time for the Pope to declare the new Patriarch an official Patriarch 
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Nine_Two
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Many years to the new Patriarch. May God lead the UGCC.
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KyivAndrew
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Thanks Nine.
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hello121
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New Patriarch for the UGCC! Eastern Catholicism
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KyivAndrew
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Lviv, Ukraine, 25 March 2011: Most Reverend Sviatoslav Shevchuk has been elected Major Archbishop at an Electoral Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Lviv/Bruhovitchi 21-24 March 2011, in accord with the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches and the Particular Law of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC).
His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI confirmed and blessed the election of Bishop Sviatoslav according to the decision of the Electoral Synod of Bishops of the UGCC on 23 March 2011.
Since April 2010, Bishop Sviatoslav, 40 years old, has been the Apostolic Administrator of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy (Diocese) of the Protection of Mother of God in Argentina since.
His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the newly elected Head of the UGCC made his profession of faith and promise to carry out faithfully his office in the presence of the bishops of the Electoral Synod.
The ceremonies of the enthronement of His Beatitude Sviatoslav as Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych will take place in Kyiv (Ukraine), on Sunday, 27 March, during the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the patriarchal Sobor of the Holy Resurrection of Christ. This Divine Liturgy beginning at 10:00 AM will bring to completion the Electoral Synod.
The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is the largest Eastern Church in full union with the Holy See. On 30 March 1991, Major Archbishop Myroslav Ivan Cardinal Lubachivsky ended his exile in Rome and returned to Lviv. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ended its forced clandestine existence in 1989 after a period of more than 40 years of persecution by the Soviet Authorities.
His Beatitude Sviatoslav was born in Striy, Ukraine on 5 May 1970. Between 1991-1992 he studied at the Don Bosko Centre for Philosophy and Theology in Buenos Aires, Argentina and then later at Holy Spirit Seminary in Lviv 1992-1994. He was ordained a deacon for the Archeparchy (Archdiocese) of Lviv on 21 May 1994 by the late Bishop Phileomon Kurchaba C.Ss.R. and a priest of the Archeparchy of Lviv by Major Archbishop Myroslav Ivan Cardinal Lubachivsky on 26 June 1994. He completed his doctoral studies in Theological Anthropology based on the Byzantine moral and theological tradition at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome in 1999 receiving Summa cum laude.
ugcc.org.ua/index.php?L=2
His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI confirmed and blessed the election of Bishop Sviatoslav according to the decision of the Electoral Synod of Bishops of the UGCC on 23 March 2011.
Since April 2010, Bishop Sviatoslav, 40 years old, has been the Apostolic Administrator of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy (Diocese) of the Protection of Mother of God in Argentina since.
His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the newly elected Head of the UGCC made his profession of faith and promise to carry out faithfully his office in the presence of the bishops of the Electoral Synod.
The ceremonies of the enthronement of His Beatitude Sviatoslav as Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych will take place in Kyiv (Ukraine), on Sunday, 27 March, during the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the patriarchal Sobor of the Holy Resurrection of Christ. This Divine Liturgy beginning at 10:00 AM will bring to completion the Electoral Synod.
The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is the largest Eastern Church in full union with the Holy See. On 30 March 1991, Major Archbishop Myroslav Ivan Cardinal Lubachivsky ended his exile in Rome and returned to Lviv. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ended its forced clandestine existence in 1989 after a period of more than 40 years of persecution by the Soviet Authorities.
His Beatitude Sviatoslav was born in Striy, Ukraine on 5 May 1970. Between 1991-1992 he studied at the Don Bosko Centre for Philosophy and Theology in Buenos Aires, Argentina and then later at Holy Spirit Seminary in Lviv 1992-1994. He was ordained a deacon for the Archeparchy (Archdiocese) of Lviv on 21 May 1994 by the late Bishop Phileomon Kurchaba C.Ss.R. and a priest of the Archeparchy of Lviv by Major Archbishop Myroslav Ivan Cardinal Lubachivsky on 26 June 1994. He completed his doctoral studies in Theological Anthropology based on the Byzantine moral and theological tradition at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome in 1999 receiving Summa cum laude.
ugcc.org.ua/index.php?L=2
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Alexander_Roman
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Many Years to the new Patriarch of the UGCC!
He’s a young man (40 years old) but I’m glad our bishops don’t engage in age discrimination!
As for his name “Svyatoslav,” there are three Saints with that name - all of royal background. One is a monk of the Kyivan Caves Lavra, St Mykola-Svyatoslav, (FD Second Sunday of Lent and Second Sunday of Pentecost) a prince, who is also called “Svyatosha.”
Also, St Svyatoslav II, Great High King of Kiev-Rus’. (The word “Kniaz” is a Slavicized version of the Scandinavian term for king or “konigyaz.”) And another St Sviatoslav Prince of Vladimir (June 23).
What represented a good amount of progress here is that the Synod forwarded ONLY one name to Rome for ratification rather than three of which the Pope would choose one.
Pope Benedict approved the Synod’s choice immediately and without equivocation.
The next and final step would be for formal recognition of the UGCC Patriarchate by Rome with its right to elect whom it wishes as its Patriarch without Roman approval (and potential veto).
Many years to the new Patriarch and many years to the Synod, Clergy, Monastics and Laity of the Ukrainian Catholic Church!
Alex
He’s a young man (40 years old) but I’m glad our bishops don’t engage in age discrimination!
As for his name “Svyatoslav,” there are three Saints with that name - all of royal background. One is a monk of the Kyivan Caves Lavra, St Mykola-Svyatoslav, (FD Second Sunday of Lent and Second Sunday of Pentecost) a prince, who is also called “Svyatosha.”
Also, St Svyatoslav II, Great High King of Kiev-Rus’. (The word “Kniaz” is a Slavicized version of the Scandinavian term for king or “konigyaz.”) And another St Sviatoslav Prince of Vladimir (June 23).
What represented a good amount of progress here is that the Synod forwarded ONLY one name to Rome for ratification rather than three of which the Pope would choose one.
Pope Benedict approved the Synod’s choice immediately and without equivocation.
The next and final step would be for formal recognition of the UGCC Patriarchate by Rome with its right to elect whom it wishes as its Patriarch without Roman approval (and potential veto).
Many years to the new Patriarch and many years to the Synod, Clergy, Monastics and Laity of the Ukrainian Catholic Church!
Alex
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dcointin
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Many years to thee master!
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