Most Rev. Lawrence Huculak

Most Rev. Lawrence Daniel Huculak, O.S.B.M. is the Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg. In 1969 he entered the Order of St. Basil the Great in Mundare, Alberta. He was ordained a priest on 28 August 1977 and was ordained as the Eparchial Bishop of Edmonton on 3 April 1997. He was appointed Metropolitan of Winnipeg on 9 January 2006 and installed on 11 February 2006. He holds a doctorate degree in Eastern Liturgy from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome.

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Introduction The Sistine Chapel in Rome is famous, not only as the place where new popes are elected but also for the important series of frescoes, begun in 1508, by arguably the world’s greatest artist, Michelangelo. On 12 November 1979, two icons by a lesser-known artist, Sviatoslav Hordynsky, were placed in the Sistine Chapel for the episcopal ordination of Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, as Metropolitan-Archbishop of Philadelphia. The service took place according to the Ukrainian Byzantine Liturgical rites and the main celebrant was Pope John Paul II. The Sistine Chapel obviously did not lack in artistic decoration, but it was lacking…