First Greek Catholic Church in Crimea Consecrated

The newly built Church of the Holy Trinity was consecrated on 13 June, in the neighbourhood of the rest home “Pryberezhnyi” (city of Yalta, Crimea). The consecration was administered by the curial Bishop Bohdan (Dziurakh), Secretary of the Synod of Bishops of UGCC and Exarch of Odesa and Crimea, Vasyl (Ivasiuk) jointly with the parish priest of the community of Yalta, Dean of the Crimean Deanery, Proto-Presbieter Ihor Havryliv and other priests of the exarchate and the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine.

The newly built Church of the Holy Trinity was consecrated on 13 June, in the neighbourhood of the rest home “Pryberezhnyi” (city of Yalta, Crimea). The consecration was administered by the curial Bishop Bohdan (Dziurakh), Secretary of the Synod of Bishops of UGCC and Exarch of Odesa and Crimea, Vasyl (Ivasiuk) jointly with the parish priest of the community of Yalta, Dean of the Crimean Deanery, Proto-Presbieter Ihor Havryliv and other priests of the exarchate and the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine.  

The event, which is significant and symbolic for the Crimean Greek Catholics, was attended by guests from various regions of Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Moldova, reports the press-service of the Crimean Deanery of UGCC. 

Liturgies for the Crimean Greek Catholics are currently celebrated in churches of other denominations (Yalta, Kerch) or in the homes of the priests (Simferopol) or in adjusted buildings (Yevpatoria, Sevastopol).