Eparchy Holy Family of London

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Eparchy Holy Family of London
Map Eparchy Holy Family of London
Basic data
Rite church Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Country United Kingdom
Ecclesiastical province Immediate
Diocesan bishop Kenneth Nowakowski
Emeritus diocesan bishop Hlib Lonchyna MSU
surface 244,820 km²
Parishes 16 (31.12.2016 / AP2017 )
Residents 66,435,550 (2018)
Catholics 12,500 (December 31, 2016 / AP2017 )
proportion of 0%
Diocesan priest 14 (31.12.2016 / AP2017 )
Religious priest 3 (31.12.2016 / AP2017 )
Catholics per priest 735
Friars 3 (31.12.2016 / AP2017 )
Religious sisters 3 (31.12.2016 / AP2017 )
rite Byzantine rite
Liturgical language English
Ukrainian
cathedral Holy Family in Exile
Website parish.rcdow.org.uk/ukrainianchurch

The eparchy Holy Family of London ( lat. : Eparchia Sacrae Familiae Londonensis ) is in the UK located eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , based in London .

history

The first Ukrainian immigrants settled in London immediately after the end of World War II . Most of them were soldiers from the Ukraine who belonged to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and were threatened with persecution. Pope Pius XII then founded, with the Bull Quia Christ on June 10, 1957, the Apostolic Exarchate England and Wales (Inghilterra e Galles). With the decree Apostolica Constitutione on May 12, 1968 it was named Apostolic Exarchate Great Britain . The Archbishop of Westminster William Godfrey had led the Exarchate of England and Wales in a secondary function from 1957 to 1963. His full-time successor acquired the “King's Weigh House Church” in London, had it converted for the Byzantine rite and consecrated it to the “Holy Family in Exile”. With the establishment of the church and the establishment as a bishopric , the church received the appointment of the "Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of The Holy Family in Exile" . The name refers to the flight of the Holy Family to Egypt . Benedict XVI. elevated it to an eparchy on January 18, 2013.

Ordinaries

Apostolic Exarchs of England and Wales

Apostolic Exarchs of Great Britain

Bishop of the Holy Family of London

  • Hlib Lonchyna MSU (January 18, 2013– September 1, 2019)
  • Kenneth Nowakowski (since January 15, 2020)

statistics

year population priest Permanent deacons Religious Parishes
Catholics Residents % Total number Diocesan priest Religious priest Catholics per priest male Female
1969 ? ? ? 17th 13 4th ? 4th 7th 11
1978 25,000 ? ? 12 9 3 2,083 3 5 13
1990 27,000 ? ? 16 13 3 1,687 3 4th 14th
1998 15,000 ? ? 14th 12 2 1,071 2 4th 14th
1999 15,000 ? ? 14th 12 2 1,071 2 5 14th
2000 15,000 ? ? 14th 12 2 1,071 2 4th 14th
2001 15,000 ? ? 15th 12 3 1,000 3 4th 14th
2002 15,000 ? ? 15th 12 3 1,000 3 4th 14th
2005 50,000 ? ? 19th 15th 4th 2,631 4th 15th
2009 10,000 ? ? 17th 12 5 588 5 1 12

Parishes in England and Wales

Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile

London and the South

Midlands

north

Wales

Parishes in Scotland

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of The Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of The Holy Family in Exile [1] (English)
  2. ↑ http://www.cerkva.org.uk//
  3. ↑ http://www.manchester.gov.uk/Libraries/arls/ethnic2.htm#ukrainians ( Memento from December 5, 2003 in the Internet Archive )