Eparchy of Saints Peter and Paul in Melbourne
| Eparchy of Saints Peter and Paul in Melbourne | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Rite church | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
| Country | Australia and New Zealand |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Melbourne |
| Diocesan bishop | Mykola Byczok CSsR |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Peter Stasiuk CSsR |
| founding | 1958 |
| surface | 7,960,710 km² |
| Parishes | 11 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Residents | 26,261,200 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Catholics | 34,530 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| proportion of | 0.1% |
| Diocesan priest | 26 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Religious priest | 1 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 1,279 |
| Permanent deacons | 4 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Friars | 1 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Religious sisters | 13 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| rite | Byzantine rite |
| Liturgical language | Ukrainian |
| cathedral | Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral |
| Website | catholicukes.org.au |
The Eparchy of Saints Peter and Paul in Melbourne ( lat. : Eparchia Sanctorum Petri et Pauli Melburnensis Ucrainorum ) is in Australia located eparchy of the Uniate Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , based in Melbourne .
history
The first immigrants from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church came to Australia in 1949 and settled in Melbourne . With Fathers Nicolai Kopiakiwsky , Francis Van den Boch and Ivan Prasko , who belonged to the Redemptorists , the first clergy of the Byzantine rite came to Melbourne in 1950 .
From 1952 to 1958, the new foundations and expansions of the parishes began in Melbourne, Adelaide , Sydney , Brisbane , Perth and Newcastle . In 1953 all Ukrainian Catholic priests met for the first joint synod . After the second synod in 1957, the clergy and congregations asked, in a letter to Cardinal Gilroy of Sydney , to set up their own church and diocese in Australia. They then bought a piece of land from the Archdiocese of Sidney in Lidcombe (Sydney). On 26 January 1958, attended Archbishop of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of Winnipeg ( Canada ) Maxim Hermaniuk all parishes in Australia.
Pope Pius XII established with the Apostolic Constitution Singularem Huius the Apostolic Exarchate Australia on May 10, 1958 and it was assigned to the Archdiocese of Melbourne as a suffragan diocese . Bishop Ivan Prasko was called to be Apostolic Exarch . October 1958 the first synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic clergy in the Exarchate of Australia. With the Apostolic Constitution Christum Iesum, the exarchate was elevated to an eparchy by Pope John Paul II on June 24, 1982 and received its current name
Ordinaries
Apostolic Exarch of Australia
- Ivan Prasko (May 10, 1958- June 24, 1982)
Bishops of Saints Peter and Paul in Melbourne
- Ivan Prasko (June 24, 1982– December 16, 1992)
- Peter Stasiuk CSsR (December 16, 1992– January 15, 2020)
- Mykola Byczok CSsR, since January 15, 2020
See also
Web links
- Chronological History of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Australia ( Memento from May 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Entry on Eparchy of Saints Peter and Paul in Melbourne on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Entry via the Eparchy of Saints Peter and Paul in Melbourne of Ukrainians on Giga-Catholic (English)