Philadelphia Archepark
Philadelphia Archepark | |
Basic data | |
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Rite church | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
Country | United States |
Diocesan bishop | Boris Andrij Gudziak |
Auxiliary bishop | Andriy Rabiy |
Emeritus diocesan bishop | Stephen Soroka |
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | John Bura |
founding | 1913 |
Parishes | 67 ( 12/31/2013 / AP2014 ) |
Residents | 166,638 ( 1976 ) |
Catholics | 15,689 ( 12/31/2013 / AP2014 ) |
proportion of | 7.8% |
Diocesan priest | 54 ( 12/31/2013 / AP2014 ) |
Religious priest | 4 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 ) |
Catholics per priest | 271 |
Permanent deacons | 7 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 ) |
Friars | 4 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 ) |
Religious sisters | 49 (December 31, 2013 / AP2014 ) |
rite | Byzantine rite |
Liturgical language |
English Ukrainian |
cathedral | Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception |
Website | www.ukrarcheparchy.us |
Suffragan dioceses |
Eparchy Saint Josaphat in Parma Eparchy Saint Nicolas of Chicago Eparchy Stamford |
Ecclesiastical province | |
The archeparchy Philadelphia ( lat. : Archieparchia Philadelphiensis Ucrainorum ) is in the United States located archeparchy the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , headquartered in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania .
history
With the immigration of a large number of believers of the Ruthean Greek Catholic Church from the territory of Austro-Hungarian Galicia to the United States of America , beginning at the end of 1870, the establishment of parishes that observed the Byzantine rite began . In Shenandoah, Pennsylvania , a Ukrainian priest erected the first church building in 1884.
The later following parishes and the structure of the Eastern Churches were by Pope Leo XIII. , with the Apostolic Letter " Orientalium dignitas " of 1895, regulated. The jurisdiction was assigned to the respective Roman Catholic diocesan bishops . In 1907 Soter Stephen Ortynsky de Labetz was appointed first full professor for Christians of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church living in the United States of America. The jurisdiction remained with the Roman Catholic bishops. This assignment was changed in 1913 and Bishop Ortynsky was placed under the supervision of the Apostolic Delegate in Washington, DC .
After the death of Bishop Ortynsky (March 24, 1916), the Holy See did not appoint an independent bishop, but the Apostolic Delegate appointed two priests as temporary administrators . The work areas of the administrators were divided, on the one hand for migrants from Lemberg - Halytsch (today Ukraine ) and on the other hand for migrants from Hungary and Croatia . This division of territory and personnel had the advantage that the respective immigrant groups could better associate themselves with their religious communities from the countries of origin.
On May 20, 1924 , Bishop Constantine Bohacewskyi was installed as the first bishop for the United States' Apostolic Exarchate for the people from today's Ukraine, who mainly belonged to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church . On July 10, 1958, the United States Apostolic Exarchate was established by Pope Pius XII. raised to the Archeparchy and renamed the Archeparchy Philadelphia. Pope John XXIII on July 14, 1961, separated the western part of the Archeparch and appointed the Eparchy Saint Nicolas of Chicago . On December 5, 1983, on the order of Pope John Paul II , the Philadelphia Archepark gave up parts of its territory to establish the Saint Josaphat Eparchy in Parma . The Archbishop of Philadelphia is the metropolitan of the Ukrainian eparchies; the suffragan bishoprics are the eparchies of Saint Josaphat in Parma, Saint Nicolas of Chicago and Stamford.
Ordinaries
United States Ordinaries
- Soter Stephen Ortynsky de Labetz OSBM , 1907-1916
Apostolic Exarchs of the United States
- Constantine Bohacewskyi , 1924-1958
Archbishops of the Philadelphia Archepark
- Constantine Bohacewskyj, 1958–1961
- Ambrozij Andrew Senyshyn OSBM, 1961-1976
- Joseph Michael Schmondiuk , 1977–1978
- Myroslaw Lyubachivskyj , 1979–1980, then coadjutor archbishop of Lemberg
- Stephen Sulyk , 1980-2000
- Stephen Soroka , 2000-2018
- Boris Andrij Gudziak , since 2019