Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada - Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada Bishops, Patriarch Mstyslav, Metropolitan Michael Khoroshy (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada Bishops, Patriarch Mstyslav, Metropolitan Michael Khoroshy, Metropolitan Wasyly, Archbishop Yurij, Archbishop of Edmonton and Western Canada, Archbishop of Toronto and Eastern Canada. Excerpt: The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (UOCe is an Eastern Orthodox Church in Canada, primarily serving Ukrainian Canadians. Its former name was the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of Canada (UGOCe. It has cathedrals in the cities of Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, and Montreal. The Metropolitan Cathedral, seminary (St. Andrew's College), and central administrative office are all based in Winnipeg. Also the Church is affiliated with four residences for university students: St. Vladimir's in Toronto, Ontario; St. Petro Mohyla Institute in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; St. John's Institute in Edmonton, Alberta; and one operating at St. Andrew's College. The Church's membership is about ten thousand, and the current Primate of the Church is Metropolitan John (Stinka). Most ethnic Ukrainians moving to Canada from Galicia (Western Ukraine) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were Greek Catholics, and were tended early on by the local Roman Catholic hierarchy. This was because the Vatican had hoped that the Ukrainian Catholics would assimilate into the Roman Catholic Church, which was already well established. The other major group of Ukrainians which were coming to Canada were from Bukovina, and they were mostly Orthodox. At first these Orthodox Christians were served by the Russian Orthodox Mission in North America (which at that time was part of the Russian Orthodox Church), but these services were not conducted in their native Ukrainian language. Catholics who were fed up with new Cath... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=699779