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St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church is a Ukrainian church located in Chicago and belonging to the St. Nicholas Eparchy for the Ukrainian Catholics. The building has an ultra-modern roof, comprising thirteen gold domes which symbolize the twelve apostles and Jesus Christ as the largest center dome.
The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Chicago is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in the whole Western United States and Midwest (except Ohio), Alaska, and Hawaii. As of 2020, the St. Nicholas Eparchy has 43 churches and missions in the western USA.
In 1957, Fr. Ivan Kohut launched a campaign to build a new church. Bishop Joseph Michael Schmondiuk of Stamford dedicated the new Church on 20 November 1960. The church building features stained glass windows and bells imported from Italy. A fresco of the Last Supper by Ukrainian-American painter Mychajlo Dmytrenko adorns the apse. [2]
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Planning for the establishment of St. Nicholas Parish began in 1905 by a small group of Ukrainian laborers. The parish was established the following year [1] on January 28. By then they had raised enough money to buy their first church from a Danish Protestant congregation at Bishop and Superior streets.