His Beatitude Sviatoslav

His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) is the Father and Head of the UGCC. He was elected on March 23, 2011 by the UGCC Synod of Bishops, and was enthroned on March 27, 2011 at the Patriarchal Sobor of the Resurrection in Kyiv.
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“The proper role of our diaspora: not to live for Ukraine, but to live”

“The proper role of our diaspora: not to live for Ukraine, but to live”

Speech of His Beatitude Sviatoslav at the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute Fundraiser, Toronto, May 2, 2014 Thank you, Ambassador Bennett, for your kind words of introduction. It is so gratifying to see members of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church in Canada like you, Your Excellency, serving their country in such high office. The Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church is not a Church made up solely of ethnic Ukrainians, as you so aptly demonstrate in your person. It is a Church that comes from the Ukrainian people - but it is a Church that is for the entire human race. I am grateful that…
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Christmas Epistle of His Beatitude Sviatoslav

Christ is born! Hearing the voice of the angel which could be heard by the shepherds in the dark night, we are hurrying today to the poor stable in Bethlehem.  Here in the hands of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we see the Son of God who came into our world as a human being.  Together with them we rejoice, we sing praises, and we look upon the live and true God, who was born in a human body and gives himself to the hands of a person as a tiny, tender, unprotected Child. The Nativity of our Savior uncovers for…
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