Announcement to the representatives

                                    of state administration of Ukraine

          about a change of the Synod of bishops of the UGCC in Ukraine

Dear representatives of state administration of Ukraine,

we announce to You that by reason of apostasy of Head of the UGCC Card. L. Husar and of 17 bishops who are in unity with his heresies, on the foundation of the Holy Scripture Card. L. Husar as well as members of the Bishops’ Synod of the UGCC in Ukraine were excommunicated from the Church.

The reality is such that any bishop, priest or believer who is an apostate is automatically excommunicated from the Church. This state cannot even be changed by the Roman Pontiff.

For this reason there was a new Bishops’ Synod appointed and elected as its Head, in place of Card. L. Husar, was the Supreme Archbishop Michailo Osidach (78).

Thereby there was no new UGCC established; what happened was just a change of leadership in the UGCC.

The new UGCC Synod appointed new bishops to the episcopal posts.

One can assume that some of the anathemized bishops will not want to give up their office and will thus cause certain tension among the faithful and the clergy. Whatever execution of office on their part in the name of the Church is now ineffective before the Church, and therefore You too ought not to take them seriously any longer. They now occupy their offices unlawfully.

Provided the individual apostate bishops repent in public, they will be admitted anew into the renewed UGCC Synod.

The action committee of the new Bishops’ Synod of the UGCC

+ Markian Hitiuk OSBM

+ Metod?j Špi?ík OSBM

+ Eliáš Dohnal OSBM

+ Samuel R. Oberhauser

                                                                                                                                    Pidhirtsi, 4th August 2008

For more information we send You copies of the letters:

1. Announcement of an anathema against 17 bishops of the UGCC

2. Appointment of a new Bishops’ Synod of the UGCC in Ukraine

3. Pastoral letter to the priests and the faithful of the UGCC in Ukraine

4. Letter to His Holiness Benedict XVI

The letter is sent to:

1. President V. Yushchenko

2. Minister of the Interior J. Lutsenko

3. Governor of Kiev

4. Governor of Lvov

5. Governor of Ivano-Frankivsk

6. Governor of Ternopol

7. Governor of Odessa

8. Governor of Donetsk

9. Governor of Uzhgorod

10. Mayor of Drohobych

11. Mayor of Stryi

12. Mayor of Kolomiya

13. Mayor of Buchach

14. Mayor of Chortkiv

15. Mayor of Zhovkva

16. Mayor of Lutsk

Address: Bishops’ Synod of the UGCC, Pidhirtsi 19, Brody dist., Lvov reg., 80660, Ukraine

fax: 00380 3266 30 637, www.community.org.ua