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Volume 46, Nos. 3–4 (2005) Logos A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies Revue des études de l’Orient chrétien Журнал східньохристиянських студій Volume 46, Nos. 3–4 (2005) This periodical is indexed in Religion Index One: Periodicals, the Index to Book Reviews in Religion, Religion Indexes: RIO/RIT/IBRR 1975– on CD- ROM, and in the ATLA Religion Database, published by the American Theological Library Association, 250 S. Wacker Dr., 16th Flr., Chicago, IL 60606, E-mail: [email protected], WWW: http://www.atla.com Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies Revue des études de l’Orient chrétien Журнал східньохристиянських студій A continuation of Logos: Periodicum Theologiae Trimestre (1950–1983) ISSN 0024–5895 Published by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies and the Yorkton Province of the Ukrainian Redemptorists © 2005 Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies Editor-in-Chief: Andriy Chirovsky (Sheptytsky Institute) Managing Editor: Andrew T. Onuferko (Sheptytsky Institute) Associate Editor: Adam Deville Distribution: Lorraine Manley Layout & Design: Key-Co. Enterprises tel. (613) 824-3878 fax (613) 824-9799 Editorial Board Peter Galadza (Sheptytsky Institute), Borys Gudziak (Ukrainian Catholic University), Metropolitan Lawrence Huculak, OSBM (Archeparchy of Winnipeg), John A. Jillions (Sheptytsky Institute), John Sianchuk, CSSR (Yorkton Province of the Ukrainian Redemptorists). International Advisory Board Johannes Madey (Paderborn), Jaroslav Pelikan (retired, Yale), Ihor Ševčenko (retired, Harvard), Robert Taft, SJ (retired, Pontifical Oriental Institute), Bishop Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia (retired, Oxford). The editors and publishers assume no responsibility for statements of fact or opinion made by contributors to this journal. Editorial and subscription offices: 223 Main Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 1C4 Tel. (613) 236–1393 (ext. 2332) Fax (613) 782–3026 Email: [email protected] Web: www.ustpaul.ca/sheptytsky Subscription rate: Canada CDN $45.00 GST included; outside Canada US $40.00 If airmail add US $15.00 Contact [email protected] for airmail and shipping rates Cover design: Gilles Lepine Logo: Jacques Hnizdovsky Logos A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies Revue des études de l’Orient chrétien Журнал східньохристиянських студій Volume 46 2005 Nos. 3–4 Table of Contents Editorials † Bishop Ivan Khoma (Choma) (1923–2006): Scholar and Shepherd after the Lord’s Own Heart......................... 283 † Archimandrite Victor Pospishil (1915–2006): An Appreciation of a Pastoral and Scholarly Life.......................... 287 Inspiration rather than Imitation: Seeing the Papacy of the Third Millennium through the Eyes of the First .......................................................... 289 A Note from the Editor-in-Chief Regarding Terminological Issues................................................... 301 Articles A New Development in the Malankara Catholic Church: Major Archiepiscopal Church or Catholicate John Madey.................................................................................... 303 Recovery and Discovery of Ecclesiological Balance: Orthodoxy’s Contribution at Vatican II and the East-West Encounter Today Will Cohen...................................................................................... 327 Logos: Vol. 46 (2005) Nos. 3–4 Table of Contents Congregational Singing in the Rus’ Liturgical Traditions: An Evaluation of Its History Melita Mudri-Zubacz ......................................................................347 Documents Pastoral Letter of the Ukrainian Catholic Hierarchy in Canada to the Clergy, Religious, Monastics and Faithful............................455 Пасторальний Лист Української Католицької Єрархії в Канаді Духовенству, Монахам, Ченцям і Всім ..........................461 Archival Sources for the Study of Eastern Christianity at the Library and Archives of Canada ...............................................467 Ruthenian Easter – And a French Catholic Priest: A Scene from Emigrant Life...........................................................477 My Dinner Among the Indians From “Scenes from Canada”...........................................................483 Scenes from Canada: II Sunday in Ottawa............................................................................489 Fr. P. Filas about Canadian Rus’.....................................................495 Notes, Essays, Lectures Prospects for Catholic-Orthodox Relations: Toward a New Beginning John A. Jillions ...............................................................................501 The School of Paris and Eucharistic Ecclesiology in the Twentieth Century Antoine Arjakovsky .........................................................................513 The Way of a Pilgrim: A Synopsis of Recent Scholarship on a Spiritual Classic Suzette Phillips................................................................................525 iv Logos: Vol. 46 (2005) Nos. 3–4 Table of Contents Book Reviews Lucian Turcescu, ed., Dumitru Stăniloae: Tradition and Modernity in Theology (Andriy Chirovsky).................................................................. 543 Andreas Andreopoulos, Metamorphosis: The Transfiguration in Byzantine Theology and Iconography (Shawn Tribe).......................................................................... 552 David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (Brian Anastasi Butcher) ......................................................... 556 John Sianchuk, C.SS.R., ed., Blessed Bishop Nicholas Charnetsky, C.SS.R., and Companions: Modern Martyrs of the Ukrainian Catholic Church (Adam DeVille)....................................................................... 561 Peter Galadza, The Theology and Liturgical Work of Andrei Sheptysky (1865–1944) (Andrew Quinlan).................................................................... 565 Jim Forest, Confession: Doorway to Forgiveness (Stephen Wojcichowsky)......................................................... 569 Antoine Arjakovsky, Entretiens avec le Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, Vers un christianisme post-confessionel (Philip J. Sandstrom) ............................................................... 573 Briefly Noted ............................................................................ 579 Books Received........................................................................ 593 Contributors............................................................................. 607 v Logos: Vol. 46 (2005) Nos. 3–4 Table of Contents The Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies Resources, Books, Academic Programmes vi Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies Vol. 46 (2005) Nos. 3–4, pp. 283–285 Bishop Ivan Khoma (Choma) (1923–2006): Scholar and Shepherd after the Lord’s Own Heart The long-time editor-in-chief of our sister journal Bohoslo- via [Theology], Bishop Ivan Khoma, titular bishop of Patara, fell asleep in the Lord in Rome on 3 February 2006. Born on 27 November 1923 into a large family of a rail- road worker and First World War veteran, in the town of Khyriv, near Lviv, Ivan Khoma received his primary and secondary education in his hometown of Khyriv and then in Peremyshl’ (Przemysl) and Sambir. He completed his theolo- gical studies in Rome after the Second World War as a semi- narian of Saint Josaphat’s Pontifical College for Ukrainians and obtained a doctorate from the Pontificia Università Urba- niana in 1951, having been ordained to the presbyterate by Archbishop Ivan Buchko on 29 June 1949. It was Buchko who invited Khoma to serve at the chancery of the apostolic visitator for Ukrainians in Western Europe, a position which had been of immense importance for the large numbers of displaced Ukrainian Catholics who had found themselves in various countries occupied by the Allies at the end of the war. This apostolic visitatorship was very much the nerve-centre of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church (UGCC) in Western Europe until the arrival in Rome of the head of the UGCC, Metropolitan (later Major Archbishop/Patriarch) Josyf Cardinal Slipyj. Father Khoma became the second secretary and archivist at Buchko’s chancery, receiving the title of “papal prelate” in 1959 from Pope John XXIII. His work at the chancery ended in 1963 when he became secretary to the newly released Metropolitan Josyf. He was later named chancellor and, from 1978 to 1992, a canon of the cathedral chapter (Krylos) of Lviv. 284 Andriy Chirovsky After having learned of secret agreements between “ecumenists” representing the Roman Curia and the Moscow Patriarchate, which signified a death-sentence for the UGCC in the wake of any significant liberalization in the Soviet Union, Patriarch Josyf decided to ordain several trusted individuals to the episcopate in order to ensure the apostolic succession for the UGCC. Thus, on 2 April 1977, Ivan Khoma received episcopal consecration from the hands of Slipyj and Bishops Ivan Prasko and Isidore Borecky. Ordained with him were Stepan Chmil and none other than Lubomyr Husar, now cardinal and major archbishop/patriarch of the UGCC. All three accepted ordination under obedience and out of their deep respect for Patriarch Josyf the Confessor of the Faith. All three remained unrecognized by Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I, and, until 1996, by Pope John Paul II, who was reported to have responded to the requests of Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk and other UGCC hierarchs that he could forgive this indiscretion
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