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Episcopal consecration
Post date: 2013-06-22Autor: Synod UO GCC
On the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, 12 July 2013 (according to the Julian calendar used in the Eastern Church), the Episcopal consecration will be held in the Monastery Church of the Nativity of Christ in Drohobych...
Bishop Michael Osidach died
Post date: 2013-02-25Autor: Synod UO GCC
On 21 February 2013, Bishop Michael Osidach died. His wish was to be buried by one of the orthodox Catholic bishops. He expressed that wish 14 days before his death.
Discrimination and deportation
Post date: 2011-12-17Autor: BCP
Dear Mr President, we, Secretaries of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate, hereby appeal to You to stop religious discrimination which is aimed at elimination of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church (UOGCC). There is a plot devised by the UGCC leadership to deport our Patriarch Elijah from Ukraine. This deportation has been planned by the UGCC for at least six months. It is apparent lawlessness and political corruption on the part of the UGCC leadership which uses state structures for its purposes. The UGCC leadership has disclosed its discriminatory, deportation and elimination purposes several times in the mass media.
Proclamation of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate 7.4.2011. (video)
Post date: 2011-04-11Autor: BCP
The purpose of the newly established Patriarchate is to unite all believers who desire to preserve the sacred deposit of the Catholic faith, regardless of their nationality or belonging to any of the Catholic Churches or traditions. Archbishop Elijah Anthony Dohnal OSBMr was elected the first Patriarch.
Decree of establishment of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate (+ video)
Post date: 2011-04-07Autor: Synod UO GCC
In an assembly of 5 April 2011, the Synod of the UOGCC together with its Head, Archbishop Michael Osidach, considered the gravity of the situation in the Catholic Church. The resolution of the Synod was establishment of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate on the same day.
A copy of the official document which confirms that bishop Elias Anthonin Dohnal never cooperated with secret police
Post date: 2011-02-09Autor:
A reply to an editor from Madrid
Post date: 2010-09-18Autor: Synod UO GCC
Dear Sir, concerning Your questions about our consecration and our Church, we reply:The question concerning us and our Synod: We announced our consecration to the Holy Father Benedict XVI and made it public. We informed him that if he would like to acquaint himself with all the details of our consecration, including the photographs, we are ready at any time for an audience where we can explain everything to him. Unallowed consecration in the Latin Church is punished with excommunication. This, however, does not apply to the Byzantine Church. And moreover, Husar as an apostate – i.e. as excommunicated from the Church – cannot excommunicate us. He did attempt to do so hypocritically by means of a frame-up trial which, however, backfired on him, convicted him of wrongdoing and brought shame on him. The Holy Father, the believers and us did not accept the results of his “trial”. Moreover, a bishop can be excommunicated by the Pope alone. There is only one exception – when a bishop is excommunicated by himself by reason of overt apostasy.
Betrayal in Stryi
Post date: 2008-11-10Autor:
The letter of the orthodox Synod was delivered to Bishop Josaphat Kavatsiv, but unfortunately it was late. The apostate bishop T. Senkiv had by that time found a traitor – Fr. Vasyl, the assistant priest of Bishop J. Kavatsiv. Fr. Vasyl arranged everything in advance together with the apostate Senkiv and invited him to his liturgy which he officiates every Sunday at 8 a.m. During the celebration on 9th November 2008 he himself welcomed T. Senkiv in the church of Bishop J. Kavatsiv. The apostate Senkiv offered the priest a reciprocal service – he will arrange for his son to complete his theological studies in Poland.
Dishonour on the person of Bishop Sophron Dmyterko OSBM
Post date: 2008-11-08Autor:
A mockery of the last true-Catholic bishop was the fact that the funeral service was held by the apostate Card. L. Husar. L. Husar considered this true-Catholic bishop his enemy. Bishop S. Dmyterko was consecrated a bishop in secret in 1968. The Pope did not acknowledge him before 1990. We are now in a situation similar to the one from the time of the Catacomb Church.What brought dishonour on the true-Catholic eparchy was addressing the faithful in the cathedral as “pravoslavni” (Orthodox) Christians.The funeral service of Card. L. Husar and several apostate bishops present discredited the life work of the true-Catholic bishop whom we had received into our new Synod.
Letter to Bishop J. Kavatsiv
Post date: 2008-11-03Autor:
We are convinced in Christ that the so-called visitation of the apostate bishop T. Senkiv in Your church, which is to take place on 9th November 2008, is the devil’s attack and if it takes place, You will lose the church, the parish and the whole eparchy where the Holy Spirit and the Church have appointed You as a bishop. Do not believe that a compromise with this spirit of apostasy will guarantee You a quiet life in Your old age and recognition of Your apostolic office. They will not give up until they morally kill You.
Bishops faithful to the Holy Father and to the UHKC consecrated in the time of illegality
Post date: 2008-03-14Autor:
Letter to the Holy Father - announcement about episcopal consecration
Post date: 2008-03-03Autor:
When asking about the sense of the law stated in the canon code which prohibits consecration of a bishop without the consent of the Vatican – the answer is: To prevent consecration of a heretic, schismatic, apostate, homosexual... However, if observance of this law leads in practice to the exact opposite, which means that right such men are consecrated, while men who are moral, orthodox and faithful to the Holy Father are not consecrated, the prohibition stated in the canon law has lost its sense and turned harmful to the Church.