Ceremony of Proclamation of New Metropolitanate of UGCC in Ternopil to Be Attended by 25 Bishops

On December 22, the Ternopil-Zboriv Metropolitanate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is to be proclaimed.

On December 22, the Ternopil-Zboriv Metropolitanate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is to be proclaimed.  In the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary in the capital of the western Podillia, the city of Ternopil, Supreme Archbishop Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) of Kyiv and Halych will celebrate a liturgy on this occasion.

According to RISU’s correspondent in Ternopil, V. Moroz, the liturgy is to start at 11 am, and the decree on the establishment of the new metropolitanate will be read out during it.

“We are waiting for Patriarch Sviatoslav, bishops of UGCC from Ukraine, the head of the Greek-Catholic Church of Hungary, metropolitan of UGCC from Poland. Our brethren in the faith of the Latin rite will be present, in particular, His Excellency Metropolitan Mieczyslav Mokrzycki from Lviv and Bishop Markian Trofymiak from Lutsk. We also await with great joy the Papal Nuncio. Representatives of the Orthodox Churches are invited. In total, 25 archbishops, metropolitans and bishops will gather together,” said the Vicar of the Ternopil-Zboriv Eparchy of UGCC, Fr. Andrii Romankiv, at a press conference on December 19.

The ceremony will be attended by 200 priests from Ternopil Oblast alone.

“Not only from the Ternopil-Zboriv and Buchach Eparchies but also from the lands constituting the Khmelnytskyi Vicariate which, God willing, may become an exarchate in future,” continued the priest.