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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.
The Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Chicago was established on July 14, 1961 [4] and St. Nicholas was elevated as the cathedral. From 1974 to 1977 the cathedral's interior was renovated by iconographer Boris Makarenko. The Divine Liturgy is celebrated in both Ukrainian and English. [citation needed]
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.
On July 13, 2015, His Beatitude Sviatoslav named him a Senator of the Ukrainian Catholic University. On December 14, 2015, he was awarded with the Cross of Military Chaplain. On April 20, 2017, Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of the Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Chicago of the Ukrainians, United States of America.
On a Friday afternoon in Chicago, IL, hundreds of Catholic school students are singing for Ukraine’s glory. ... Most students there in the heart of Chicago’s Ukrainian Village have Ukrainian ...
After Chicago received its own eparchy, the new local bishop, Jaroslav Gabro requested the parish return to diocesan control from the Basilian order. [ 3 ] In 1980, after the closure of the nearby Ukrainian Catholic parish of St. Basil the Great, St. Michael's received its parishioners and adopted the Julian calendar for liturgical services.
Michael Wiwchar CSsR (born May 9, 1932) is a Canadian-born bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States and Canada. He served as the third eparch (bishop) of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Chicago from 1993 to 2000 and as the fourth eparch of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon from 2000 to 2008.
A view of the stained glass windows in the southern apse inside Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church. Sts. Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Parish in Chicago was founded in 1969 by Patriarch Josyf Slipyj and the bishop of the Eparchy of Chicago, Yaroslav Gabro. Among the reasons for establishing this distinct parish was the desire ...