Fr. Joanikyi Chverenchuk

                                                                                                                                            Provincial Superior OSBM

                                                                                                                                            Ukraine 

                           Application for the monastery in Pidhirtsi

Very Reverend Father Joanikyi,

hereby we announce to You that we, religious of OSBM, were consecrated bishops of UGCC. The consecration was held in secret, as it was in the time of illegality. Promulgation of our consecration we bring forward in our letter to the Holy Father but at the same time also to the Bishops’ Synod of UGCC and to the UGCC believers.

We announce to You that we proposed to the Holy Father that the monastery in Pidhirtsi be exempted from the Province OSBM and established as an autonomous monastery of pontifical right. Thereby the monastery would not be subordinate to the Generalate OSBM but directly to the Holy Father, so it would be a structure parallel to the Order OSBM. In case the Holy Father does not find this form appropriate, we retract our proposal and request.

        In Christ,

                     + Markian V. Hitiuk OSBM

                     + Metod?j R. Špi?ík OSBM

                     + Eliáš A. Dohnal OSBM

                                                                                                                                      Pidhirtsi, 3rd March 2008

Address: OSBM Monastery, 80660 Pidhirtsi, Brody district, Lvov region, Ukraine

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