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  Ukrainian and Greek Orthodox church music
Ukrainian religious music was brought to Canada from Ukraine in the early 1890s with the first wave of immigration (the first Ukrainian Orthodox Church was erected in Gardenton, Man in 1899).
Both the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada and the Ukrainian Catholic Church of Canada belong to the Eastern Church liturgical tradition that was brought to Ukraine from Byzantium.
Ukrainian scholars theorize that it came to Ukraine via the Graeco-Syrian branch of the Byzantine tradition with a strong local melodic admixture.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0003511   (696 words)

  
 First Ukrainian Church in Canada
The Orthodox settlers mainly from Bukovina, had to be satisfied with the Russian Orthodox priests whose paramount mission in Canada was to Russify the Ukrainians.
The cemetery in the courtyard of this church was consecrated for the settlers of the Orthodox faith in the fall of 1897 by Rev. N.
The church cemetery is crowded with distinctive Orthodox grave markers-inscribed crosses cast in cement moulds by the local pioneer craftsmen.
www.infoukes.com /culture/architecture/first_church   (1248 words)

  
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atlasofchurch.altervista.org /vari/inglese.htm   (415 words)

  
 Ukrainian Self-Reliance League of Canada
The desire among a growing number of faithful, to have Ukrainian priests, to have local lay control of church property, and to be served by married clergy, lead to the founding of the Ukrainian Orthodox Brotherhood and the subsequent founding of the Ukrainian Greek-Orthodox Church of Canada in 1918.
To offset the potential abuses by clergy, as was perceived to be occurring in the UG Catholic Church, the Church governance of the UG Orthodox Church was structured to call for equal numbers of clergy and laity in the administrative body, the Consistory.
A significant improvement in the relationship between CYC and the Church occurred in the late 1980's and in the 1990's when the Metropolitan of the Church was named patron of CYC and the hierarchy and priests began attending the biennial CYC conventions in greater numbers.
www.usrl-cyc.org /page1.htm   (1509 words)

  
 Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA - OrthodoxWiki
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA (UOC of USA) is a jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the United States.
Despite becoming the largest Ukrainian Orthodox jurisdiction in the United States at this point, the diocese was still not recognized as canonical by the rest of the Orthodox Church, and the hierarchs who re-consecrated John (Mstyslav (Skrypnyk) and Christopher (Contogeorge), exarch for the Patriarchate of Alexandria)) were themselves considered dubious by some (ibid., 113).
Andrei (Kuschak) was elected by six parishes of the Constantinopolitan Ukrainians and consecrated to the episcopacy on January 28, 1967, by Abp.
orthodoxwiki.org /Ukrainian_Orthodox_Church_in_the_USA   (1488 words)

  
 Religious - Christian - Belarus and Ukraine
Filaret, Metropolitan of Minsk and Sluzk, Exarch of Patriarch [Aleksy II of the Russian Orthodox Church] for all Byelorussia.
L'viv Diocese of [the] Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (In Communion With the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople)
learning.lib.vt.edu /slav/relig_chr_bela_ukr.html   (1907 words)

  
 Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (UOCC) is an Eastern Orthodox Church in Canada, primarily serving Ukrainian Canadians.
At first these Orthodox Christians were served by the Russian Orthodox Mission in North America (which at that time was part of the Russian Orthodox Church), but these services were not conducted in their native Ukrainian.
The young Church had chosen the Ukrainian bishop as their bishop, hoping that the Church would further grow under his leadership (with his knowledge of Ukrainian traditions).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ukrainian_Orthodox_Church_of_Canada   (1365 words)

  
 Orthodox churches
The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is considered the spiritual leader of the Oriental Orthodox Churches.
It is to be noted that the spiritual leadership is not in the same sense understood for the one extended among the Eastern Orthodox Churches to the Church of Constantinople, it is however, in the spirit of respect and honour for the Apostolic Throne of Alexandria.
The "Malankara Orthodox Church is an ancient Church of India and it traces its origin to as far back as A. 52 when St. Thomas one of the disciples of Jesus Christ came to India and established Christianity in the South Western parts of the sub-continent.
www.ecumenism.net /denom/orthodox.htm   (1642 words)

  
 St. Ephraim's Orthodox Mission - Missions Staff
Orthodox Churches are gaining adherents across the globe, but particularly in the developed world, where individuals are turning to Orthodoxy in record numbers because they are finding in it the simple peace, love, and salvation they have been seeking.
Orthodox Christianity is also resurgent in newly freed countries where some of the worst religious persecution in history occurred in recent times.
Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine - Ukrainian Orthodox Church
www.ourchurch.com /view/?pageID=186697   (1235 words)

  
 Before First Visit to an Orthodox Church
Orthodox are expected to be making regular, private confession to Christ in the presence of their priests.
Orthodox throughout the world hold unanimously to the fundamental Christian doctrines taught by the Apostles and handed down by their successors, the bishops, throughout the centuries.
Currently the largest Canadian jurisdictions are the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Toronto, Canada, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada and the Orthodox Church in America.
www.stanneorthodoxchurch.org /Newcomers/before.htm   (2153 words)

  
 Ukrainian Church
Soon many Orthodox also began to view such a union favorably as a way of improving the situation of the Ukrainian clergy and of preserving their Byzantine traditions at a time when Latin Polish Catholicism was expanding.
The situation was complicated by the strong presence of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in western Ukraine.
Ukrainian Catholic officials in Lviv believe that there are as many as six million faithful of their church scattered throughout the country.
www.faswebdesign.com /ECPA/Byzantine/Ukranian.html   (1425 words)

  
 Home - ORTHODOX CHURCH OF CANADA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
He must be Orthodox (Nicaea Cannon 19); irreproachable in faith and conduct (Titus 1:7, 1 Tim 3:2 and 4:14, Laodicaea Cannon 12); knowing Scripture and Tradition and the Canons of the Church and in good health without physical shortcomings which would inhibit him in the fulfillment of his ministry (Cannon 78 of the Holy Apostles).
Such bestowal of "minor" orders is consistent with the traditions and practice of the Orthodox Church, allowing the candiate to prove his klesis while continuing his studies and to demonstrate his ability to undertake some duties and responsibilities in the life of the Church.
Applicants from other Orthodox jurisdictions: Clergy from other Orthodox jurisdictions, and those with Orthodox training, who apply for reception into The Orthodox Church of Canada, will be required to submit details of their clerical training, details of Holy Orders received and their involvements in ministry to the present time.
www.orthodoxchurchofcanada.org /VOCATIONS   (3501 words)

  
 Ukrainians in Canada, 1900-1930   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Some Ukrainians were attracted to the teachings of Bishop Seraphim (Stefan Ustovolsky) of the Russian Orthodox Church, who worked for the establishment of an interim, artificial Greek Independent Church, in order to wean away the Ukrainian Catholic settlers from their Byzantine rite Catholic faith.
One reason for the scarcity of Ukrainian Catholic priests in Canada was that the coming of married Ukrainian Catholic diocesan clergy was opposed by the Latin rite Catholic hierarchy both in Canada and the United States.
Called the Ukrainian Teachers' Seminary by the Ukrainian settlers, this special school was established for the training of bilingual school teachers to teach in the one-room schools in the rural Ukrainian settlements.
www.catholiceducation.org /articles/history/canada/ch0006.html   (3839 words)

  
 Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada - OrthodoxWiki
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (UOCC) is a jurisdiction in Canada of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, primarily serving Ukrainian Canadians.
In July 2005, at the Twenty-first Sobor (XXI) of the UOCC, Archbishop John (Stinka) was elected Archbishop of Winnipeg and Metropolitan of Canada.
Archbishop of Winnipeg, and of the Central Diocese, Metropolitan of Canada, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
orthodoxwiki.org /UOCC   (1213 words)

  
 Publications on Religious Issues from CIUS Press
The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Soviet State (1939-1950) is a pioneering study of the suppression of this Ukrainian church under Stalinist rule.
The intellectual ferment of the era is captured in essays on the defense of the Orthodox faith and the religious polemical literature.
The publication of the proceedings of the first Council of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, which was held in Kyiv in October 1921, contains the previously unpublished proceedings of the ecclesiastical council that laid the foundations for the independence (autocephaly) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the Moscow Patriarchate.
www.ualberta.ca /~cius/church/c-publications/c-publications1.htm   (1427 words)

  
 Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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The position of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada with regard to the unity of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine
www.uocc.ca   (38 words)

  
 Holy Ascension Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church
A Ukrainian Brotherhood of Canada was established in 1918 whose objectives were to organize and support a Ukrainian (autocephalous) Orthodox Church of Canada which would be independent of all foreign missions and overseas control.
Church services were held in the parishioners' homes, in the local school and also in the Ukrainian National Hall.
The church was filled to capacity and the ecstasy of the congregation was overwhelming.
www.smokylake.com /history/churches/ukrainianorthodox.htm   (813 words)

  
 Metropolitan Wasyly honored in Winnipeg for double anniversary (12/05/99)
WINNIPEG - Metropolitan Wasyly, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (UOCC), was honored by special moleben and banquet on November 1 at Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral.
Metropolitan Wasyly (Fedak) was born on November 1, 1909, in the village of Kadobivtsi, Zastavna county, Bukovyna, Ukraine, to Wasyly and Anastasia (nee Ternowetska) Fedak.
After the repose of Metropolitan Andrew, Archbishop Wasyly was elected metropolitan, archbishop of Winnipeg and primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada by the Sobor of the UOCC on July 15, 1985.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1999/499911.shtml   (1044 words)

  
 The Mystery Worshipper: Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
The cast: Archbishop Yuri of Toronto and the Eastern Diocese, with a range of Ukrainian Orthodox clergy; Peter Coffin, Bishop of Ottawa and the Dean and Pastoral Vicar of the Anglican Cathedral; and a group of Roman Catholic, United Church, Muslim, Jewish and Mohawk traditional religious figures.
His Grace was in a dark purple or fl omophorion and mantia, as were several of the other Orthodox clergy, some of whom were quite roly-poly (I have since learned that this is likely not from self-indulgence, but from a rigid adherence to fasts which are broken with too much starchy food).
Other of my Orthodox interlocutors were more approving, impressed with Archbishop Yurij and the quality of the singing, and there was general and sympathetic public interest in the liturgy, which was re-broadcast several times over the next few days.
www.ship-of-fools.com /Mystery/2003/686Mystery.html   (1329 words)

  
 RISU /English /News /Ukrainian Orthodox in Canada No Longer to Give Communion to Non-Orthodox:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
This year’s sobor (assembly} of the UOCC noted a substantial decrease in the church’s membership: in 1961 there were 119,000 members, and 11,000 in 2004.
In 1990, the UOCC became, as Interfax puts it, “a church body under the mantle of the Ecumenical Patriarchate” of Constantinople.
The UOCC considers one of its important tasks to be “support of the hopes of the people of Ukraine to have a free and autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox church.”
www.risu.org.ua /eng/news/article;11217   (319 words)

  
 Standing Episcopal Conference of Orthodox Bishops (AUOCA) - SEC - Relations with CONSTANTINOPLE and SCOBA
The SEC is a canonical Orthodox Christian body in the United States established with the Blessings of the American Holy Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church (now, the Orthodox Church of America) and formally established at New York City in 1951.
The SEC is moderated by the Vicar General of the Diocese of the Midwest USA and Vicar for Eccumenical Affairs for the Autonmous Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America, a part of the worldwide Ukrainian Autcephalous Orthodox Church, which is a mission-oriented Christian Church in the tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
In Orthodox ecclesiology, subordination or obedience is derived from the unity of bishops.
www.ourchurch.com /view/?pageID=26619   (1461 words)

  
 Interfax-Religion
The Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada marks substantial depletion of its ranks
This was reaffirmed by a guest of the Council, Archbishop Vsevolod Maidansky of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA, which is also in the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
Until 1990 the Ukrainian Greek-Orthodox Church of Canada was outside communion with the canonical churches, since it was headed by йmigrй hierarchs of the unrecognized Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC).
www.interfax-religion.com /?act=news&div=105   (675 words)

  
 P-21 St. Michael's Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church - Province of Manitoba | General Page
Michael's Orthodox Church, consecrated October 14, l899, was the first permanent Ukrainian Orthodox church erected in Canada.
Until the parish joined the Greek Orthodox Church of Canada in l922, it was served by a Russian Orthodox Mission.
The church was built by immigrants from northern Bukovyna, now the western Ukraine, who settled in the Gardenton area after l896.
www.gov.mb.ca /chc/hrb/prov/p021.html   (139 words)

  
 RISU /English /News /Ukrainian Orthodox in Canada Comment on Communion Practice, Interfax:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Bohdan Hladio, chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (UOCC), has sent RISU commentary on a 31 July news story from Interfax.
The UOCC, in common with all Orthodox Churches, restricts the reception of the Holy Mysteries to those who have been officially and sacramentally received into the Orthodox Church.
According to governmental census data there were 119,000 self-professed Ukrainian Orthodox Christians in Canada in 1961, and 32,700 in 2001.
www.risu.org.ua /eng/news/article;12142   (454 words)

  
 St. Demetrious Ukrainian Orthodox Congregation
Hyas Parish District of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
In February 1946 the congregation became a member of the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of Canada.
In 1954 the building of the church was begun with John Baron as the main carpenter; countless hours of volunteer labour was put in by members.
members.fortunecity.com /petrouch/albom/stenen.html   (354 words)

  
 Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
So it was that, at her inception, the Ukrainian Greek- Orthodox Church of Canada found herself under the canonical omophorion of the Antiochian Patriarchate.
All bishops, priests and deacons commemorate the Metropolitan; the Metropolitan, as Primate of the Church, commemorates the Patriarch.
The current canonical status of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada reminds us of ancient times—the first 700 years of the existence of the Church in Rus'-Ukraine—when the Kyivan Metropolia was under the protection or "omophorion" of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, i.e., before the time of its annexation by Moscow.
www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org /articles/church_history/oleh_krawchenko_yesterday.htm   (4017 words)

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