On November 14, 2010, the meeting of the Congress of Laity of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of Central, Eastern, and Southern Ukraine came to an end. The laymen of the UGCC brought forth a proposal to establish a Russian-language Greek Catholic publishing house and called to provide all kinds of support to their brothers in faith in Russia.
The congress was aimed to familiarize the laity with their objectives in the life of the church and to consider optimal ways of fulfilling thereof in the given circumstances of existence and life of the church in the eastern regions of Ukraine.
In his sermon, Patriarch Lubomyr noted: "We have gathered to consider our further direction, how our Church should develop in these regions of Ukraine. In view thereof, we tried to draw up a 'road map,' to outline the way to go. It was not an organizational, structural, secular gathering. We sought not for ordinary solutions but for the way the Lord would like us to go. It is a gathering of believers, the church, which consists of archpriests, priests, and laity. We have charted, perhaps not very specifically, how to fulfill the will of God in our circumstances."
According to the press service of the UGCC, the congress was attended by representatives of the Kyivan Archeparchy and the Donetsk-Kharkiv, Odesa-Crimean and Lutsk Exarchates of the UGCC. The following hierarchs participated in the event: the head of UGCC, Patriarch Lubomyr; Bishop Stepan (Meniok), exarch of Donetsk and Kharkiv of UGCC; Bishop Vasyl (Ivasiuk), exarch of Odesa and Crimea; Bishop Yosafat (Hovera), exarch of Lutsk; and Bishop Yosyf (Milian), auxiliary bishop of the Kyivan Archeparchy,