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Sylvester Sembratovych: A Return to Ukrainian History
A modern proverb says that “history is written by the victors.” Before history became a critical science (discipline), it was meant to be a lesson in morality and patriotism, a story told through the...
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"Conciliabolo" : Rome and the 1946 Lviv Pseudo-Synod
Today marks the 75thanniversary of the Lviv pseudo-sobor, which took place from 8–10 March 1946. In the past 25 years, few English works have revealed new information in its regard. Based on recently...
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The Jesuit Refoundation of Saint Paul’s in Winnipeg
Saint Paul's at Ellice & VaughanAn Alma Mater nourishes both the intellectual and the spiritual sides of man. Two of the educational institutions I attended were run by the Society of Jesus, known...
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General Pavlo Shandruk to Pope Pius XII
Shandruk in Polish uniform Your Holiness! On the solemn day, for the whole world of 80th Birthday Jubilee of Your Holiness,On behalf of 20,000 soldiers of the 1st Ukrainian Division of the...
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Ukrainian, Canadian, British Sources in Vatican Archives 1939-1958
In 2020, for the first time time in 22 years, I was unable to access the Vatican Apostolic Archive due to COVID lockdowns and restrictions. I was consoled by the fact that the Archives of...
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Danylo Skoropadsky on His Father’s Death
I first learned of Danylo Skoropadsky on a visit to the old Basilian Fathers Museum in Mundare, Alberta; a building which had been erected in 1938 to house the Basilian Press. In the 1950s, the Press...
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The Union of Brest at 425
The UNION of Brest (1595–1596) aimed to heal the lack of canonical unity between the Churches. In the spirit of the 1439 Florentine Union, the Orthodox Church of Kievan Metropolia (today's Ukraine and...
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Eyewitness to Ukrainian Independence
Chrystyna Lapychak/The Ukrainian WeeklyHistorians are not the witnesses or the sources of history. They makes historical judgments upon the witnesses’ accounts. On the 30th anniversary of Ukrainian...
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Maxim Hermaniuk and the Formation of the Ukrainian Catholic Metropolia of...
65 years ago, on 3 November 1956, Pope Pius XII created an ecclesiastical province (metropolia) for Ukrainian Catholics in Canada, elevating the three existing apostolic exarchates to the status of...
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Early History of UGCC in Great Britain
I am interviewed by Julian Hayda, produced by Bohdan Mandziuk, for Open Church program of Zhyve Tebebachenya.
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Exsul Familia – A Family in Exile
Last August, a 68-year-old document was extracted from decades of dust into the light of the present and republished in Italian by the Vatican press. It was Pius XII’s Apostolic Constitution, Exsul...
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A "Canadian Queen" - the Apostolic Delegation in Ottawa reports on Elizabeth II
Translations of reports from Vatican Apostolic Archive, Archive of the Nunciature of Canada fonds.Idelbrando Antoniutti to Domenico Tardini 25 February 1952 The British Royal Family and Canada The...
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Coventry Ukrainian Catholic Church at 60
Timeline by Bohdan MandziukIt has been a very traumatic year for Ukrainians worldwide. A number of celebratory events had to be postponed after Russia’s war in Ukraine intensified, in February....
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William Godfrey: Remembering a Forgotten Shepherd
It is not true that William Godfrey has been forgotten, for we are remembering him. Christians are an historical people, in that our faith is firmly rooted in the memory of God’s salvation wrought in...
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75th Anniversary of Edmonton and Toronto Eparchies
The 3rd of March marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the foundation of the Edmonton and Toronto Eparchies (formerly designated exarchates). On 3 March 1948, the Apostolic See of Rome divided the...
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Papal Envoys to Modern British Coronations
The Coronation of Their Majesties The King and Queen Consort is fast approaching. We nevertheless have very little information about it, including the guest list. Recently, I unearthed...
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Ukrainians Immigration to Canada: the Apostolic Delegate 1943
Louis St-Laurent and Bishop Nil SavarynA recent article in Canadian Press proclaims that "Canada Is Facing the Largest Wave of Ukrainian Immigration Ever," with a million applications having been filed...
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Nil Savaryn: Founding Bishop of the Edmonton Eparchy
Savaryn by Julian BucmaniukBishop Nil Mykola Savaryn was the founding bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Edmonton. ... Born in Staryi Sambir (Western Ukraine) on 19 May 1905, he entered the...
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The Polish Ambassador to the Holy See and the Holocaust
Archival research can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. But, along the way, you find some fascinating and even disturbing things of great significance, which you we not seeking. My field of...
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The Pontifical Ruthenian College, 1897–1915
Between Roman Universalism and National ConsciousnessThe Collegio Ruteno in Rome was founded, in 1897, to educate Ruthenian-Ukrainian seminarians from Austrian Galicia in a Catholic universalist spirit...
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Postwar Ukrainian Parishes in Winnipeg
While preparing a work on the history of the Ukrainian (Greek-)Catholic Church in Canada from the 1930s to 1950s, I came across a few reports referring to the foundation of a number of parish churches...
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Andrey Sheptytsky and Oleksander Koshetz
Koshetz and Sheptytsky, Chicago 1922On 21 September 2024 we mark the 80th anniversary of the death of the great Ukrainian composer, director, and musicologist, Oleksander Koshyts (often spelled...
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Pius XII Against Forced Repatriation
Letter of Bishop Ivan Buchko to Pope Pius XIIPax Christi in Regno Christi!Rome, December 16, 1945.Most Holy Father,prostrate at the feet of Your Holiness, I humbly implore Your most benevolent...
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The Sovereign Opens Canada's Parliament in 1957
From a report from the Apostolic Delegate in Canada, Archbishop Giovanni Panico, sent to both Sections of the Papal Secretariat of State:Ottawa, 16 October 1957This morning, after a four-day stay in...
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Catholic Church and Authoritarian State: Poland 1932
According to a Christian understanding, Church and State should coexist in a harmonious complementary relationship. But debates as to how such a relationship functions and where to draw the boundaries...
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