Headlines:
 Mar 2001: www.papalvisit.org.ua - web site dedicated to the Papal visit is launched >>>
 Jan 2001: Papal Lenten Message for Lent 2001 (in Ukrainian) >>>
 Jan 2001: Fr. K.Nowakowski appointed director of the Press Office of the UGCC >>>
 Dec 2000: Dec 14 - His Beatitude passes away >>>
 Dec 2000: Pastoral Letter from the Catholic Bishops(in Ukrainian) >>>
 Nov 2000: Pope John Paul II to visit Ukraine (shown below)

Pope John Paul II to visit Ukraine His Holiness John Paul II will make a pastoral visit to Ukraine from June 23-27, 2001, at the invitation of Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma and the Catholic Bishops of both Greek Catholic and Roman Catholic rites. The principal sites of the visit will be Kyiv, the national capital, and Lviv, the seat of both the Patriarch of the Greek Catholic Church and the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church. A Church Executive Committee has been formed for the preparation of the visit. It will tightly cooperate with Apostolic Administration in Ukraine and the responsible state committee. These are the heads of the Committee from the Church: Mgr. Julian Gbur - the bishop of Stryj, The Secretary of Synod of the Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church Mgr. Markijan Trofymjak - the bishop of Lutsk, vice-president of the Ukrainian Roman-Catholic Bishops Conference We ask all the people of good will for prayer and spiritual renewal in the intention of the Holy Father. >>> more information about the visit on www.papalvisit.org.ua
New Head of the Church: His Beatitude Lubomyr Cardinal Husar
New Head of the Church: His Beatitude Lubomyr Cardinal Husar On 26 January, 2001, the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church announced the election of His Excellency Bishop Lubomyr Husar as Major Archbishop of Lviv of the Ukrainians, Metropolitan of Halych and Bishop of Kamianets Podilskyj. The twenty-six Ukrainian Catholic bishops from Ukraine and from around the world gathered in Lviv in Synod to elect the successor to His Beatitude Myroslav Ivan Cardinal Lubachivsky who passed away on 14 December 2000. On February 21, Pope John Paul II raised His Beatitude to the dignity of a Cardinal at a consistory in Rome.