Ukrainian Catholic University

Rector’s report 2007–2008 Mission The Ukrainian Catholic University is an open academic community living the Eastern Christian tradition and forming leaders to serve with professional excellence in Ukraine and internationally – for the glory of God, the common good, and the dignity of the human person.

Grand Chancellor His Beatitude Lubomyr Cardinal Husar Rector Rev. Borys Gudziak, Ph.D. A New Face in the UCU Senate Senior Vice Rector Krzysztof Zanussi is a legendary Polish screenwriter and Dr. Taras Dobko film director. Since 1966, he has made many intelligent Vice Rectors documentary films for the cinema and television inP oland Myroslav Marynovych (university mission) and abroad. From 1974 to 1981, he was assistant to the Dr. Ulana Holovatch (research) head of the Cinematographers’ Union of Poland. Since Dr. Volodymyr Turchynovskyy (strategic planning) 1994, he has been a member of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture. Senate Dr. Taras Dobko, Senior Vice Rector “A university is a place of deep discussion, not a factory Rev. Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., Rector to make experts. Many universities in the West are John Hewko, Esq., Vice President, Millennium Challenge undergoing just such a paralysis of political correctness Corporation, Washington, D.C. and banality, which is endlessly spreading, a lack of genuine, Lilia Hrynevych, Head of the Kyiv Board of Education sincere thought, afraid to say something that might offend someone. I hope that here this can be avoided, for Dr. George Logush, CEO, Kraft Foods Ukraine Ukrainians are a freedom-loving people,” said Zanussi. His Excellency Dionisiy Lyakhovych, Curial Bishop of the Archeparchy of Kyiv and Vyshhorod, Chair Olexander Suhonyako, President of the Association of Ukrainian Banks, Kyiv Prof. Oleh Turij, Chair of UCU’s Church History Department Cover photos: (top) The study of classical Greek is a key element of (delegate from the Academic Council) UCU’s theology program. His Excellency Ihor Vozniak, Archbishop of Lviv (middle) UCU students staged a traditional vertep (Christmas play) for staff of the Office of the President of Ukraine and also for parishes Krzysztof Zanussi, Film Director, Warsaw in Kyiv. Prof. Maria Zubrytska, Pro-Rector of Lviv National University (bottom) A student of the Icon-Painting Summer School works on a detail.

22 A Me s s a g e f r o m t h e Re c t o r

Dear Friends, The precarious state of the world puts the future at the forefront of our minds—especially in Ukraine, where the global financial crisis has hit an already shaky economy.

Yet, the needs of the Church, including the education of future leaders—clergy, religious, and lay—must continue to be met. We do not know what the future will hold. We do, however, have a vision—and a generation of eager young people willing to dedicate their lives to making it a reality.

With the help of international specialists, in 2007-2008 the university prepared a detailed five-year strategic plan setting clear academic and spiritual goals, all in light of the university’s fundamental mission and stressing financial responsibility.

UCU aims to increase the number of students and degree programs. And we must build desperately needed student housing, especially to accommodate worthy but poor students, from Ukraine as well as troubled former Soviet republics such as Georgia and Belarus. To accomplish this, we are expanding our donor base by opening a fundraising office in Brussels; increasing fundraising efforts in Canada; and strengthening our efforts in the United States, a source for major support. We are happy to report that fundraising is also developing in Ukraine, which is beginning to support her own Catholic university despite the economic hardships of a traumatized post-Soviet society. Highlights of the Year As you will see in the following pages, the Ukrainian Catholic • Visits: Renato Raffaele Cardinal Martino, University is committed to excellence. In addition to Pope President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Benedict XVI, leading national and international academics Peace, and Leonardo Cardinal Sandri, Prefect of recognize the excellence of the programs we offer, the seminal the Congregation for the Oriental Churches books we publish through our university press, and, most importantly, the service of our students. • UCU’s Lviv Business School begins activities

Our students are courageous young people who are • Symposium of the Association of Catholic helping Ukraine overcome the devastation of a century of Universities of Central and Eastern Europe is totalitarianism. They never cease to amaze me. Neither does held at UCU the generosity of our friends, which allows us to serve the • UCU Rector Rev. Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., is Church and society by educating minds and shaping souls for honored as a Knight of Academic Palms, by the the benefit not only of Ukraine, but everywhere from which Ministry of Higher Education and Research of our students hail and they will serve (already ten countries and France counting!). • First Ecumenical Social Week Thank you for making this possible! • Construction of a new university church starts • Humanities Faculty opens a master’s degree program in medieval studies • Architect of the Theological Center receives Rev. Borys Gudziak, Ph.D. national Shevchenko Prize

3 Ec u m e n i s m “Help Your Neighbor!” — Social Week UCU is the only Catholic university a way to pray, study, in the multi-denominational post- work: namely, to live Soviet space and an open academic together.” community, so ecumenism and Among those taking interreligious dialogue is a clear part in the Ecumenical imperative of its activities. Social Week were “The Ukrainian Catholic University Ukrainian First Lady will certainly be able to offer effective Kateryna Yushchenko; support for ecumenical action,” said the former director His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI of the International at a meeting of the bishops of the Monetary Fund, Michel Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Camdessus; the French Ambasador to Ukraine, One of the examples of this was Jean-Paul Veziant; Ecumenical Social Week “Help Your representatives of the Neighbor!”, organized by UCU’s Ukrainian government; Institute of Ecumenical Studies, and members of a which included a variety of events. Participants of the Ecumenical Social Week visited a transitional center variety of European The week featured a photo exhibit, where formerly homeless people renovate discarded furniture. and Ukrainian social scholarly discussions, an international organizations. And the conference on the cooperative cultural festival held as part of the returning to pre-Soviet Christian movement, training for social service Ecumenical Social Week turned the values,” said Mrs. Yushchenko. “I organizations, round tables, films, attention of thousands of citizens of hope that the Ecumenical Social theatrical presentations, and concerts Lviv and guests of the city to social Week will continue in other social of religious and contemporary music. problems. programs and events that gather “The main idea of the Ecumenical various denominations in order “Initiatives like this are extraordinarily Social Week is to gather all Ukrainian to learn from one another, to important, for they help revive the denominations and charitable coordinate their activities, and to traditions of philanthropy in Ukraine, organizations around social issues,” divide responsibility.” said Dr. Antoine Arjakovsky, director of the Institute of Ecumenical Studies. “A very ecumenical atmosphere reigns at UCU. Here you feel the interest and principled openness of teachers and students. I consider this university to be unique. For I do not know where else in Ukraine it is possible in such

Jean-Paul Veziant, French Ambassador to Ukraine “UCU is the most modern of the universities that I have seen in Ukraine. The Theological Center is a new project, an educational, cultural and spiritual complex in Lviv… It is difficult to list all the university’s good initiatives.” A photo exhibit drawing attention to society’s problems was a feature of the Ecumenical Social Week. 44 Eastern Contacts “Today the majority of UCU graduates go west to earn licentiates or doctoral degrees,” said UCU Rector Fr. Borys Ec u m e n i s m Gudziak. “But I would like our young scholars also to turn their academic research east because understanding Ukrainian history without studying the deep roots of connections with our neighbors to the east and, in general, eastern culture would be very difficult.” Presently, one UCU graduate is studying in Lebanon and another in Armenia. Last year, two important events opened UCU to the Christian East and ecumenical relations: an Armenian- Archbishop Grigoris Buniatian, the head of the Ukrainian Diocese of the Armenian Ukrainian scholarly conference and Apostolic Church, visited UCU and participated in an international conference dedicated to the visit of a modern mystic from Ukrainian-Armenian relations. Syria, Mirna Nazzour. the historical perspective, we need at hands, a woman who sometimes suffers The international conference, the same time to be aware that the life the wounds of the stigmata. Her home dedicated to the theme of Armenian- of Armenians in Ukraine is continuing is open to everyone, and Christians and Ukrainian relations, gathered scholars and developing. The activities of Muslims come to pray there. from Ukraine, the United States, [various] Armenian centers witness to Mirna Nazzour traveled to Ukraine Poland, Germany, and Armenia. this,” said the archbishop. An especially honored guest of the at the invitation of UCU’s Institute of conference was Archbishop Grigoris Mirna Nazzour’s visit was more spiritual Ecumenical Studies. She conducted a Buniatian of the Ukrainian Diocese of than scholarly. For 25 years, Mirna’s retreat for students of the institute’s the Armenian Apostolic Church. home in Soufanieh, Damascus, has been master’s program together with her a place of prayer and miraculous events, spiritual director, Fr. Elias Zahlaoui. “Today, as we look on various aspects including apparitions of the Mother of She also spoke before the university of the activities of Armenians on the God. Oil flows from the miraculous community and joined it for a liturgy. territory of Ukraine, including from icon in her home and from Mirna’s Continuing Judeo-Christian Dialogue “In the Talmud it says; ‘He who saves Polish, Jewish, and Ukrainian one life saves the whole world.’ But students that UCU co-organizes. Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, his Dozens of young people take part brother Klymentii, and the Studite in the annual seminar, focusing on monks saved thousands of worlds, dialogue and mutual understanding for they rescued not only me and among peoples united by a common, other Jewish boys from death, but also though sometimes painful, history. generations of our descendants,” said The seminar includes lectures, Dr. Leon Chameides at the Ukrainian workshops, training sessions, art Catholic University. Dr. Chameides studios, and national and cultural was one of many Jews saved during presentations. World War II at the Univ Studite Participants say seminars like this monastery in the Lviv Region. encourage mutual understanding With this interreligious history in and the creation of a tolerant society, its past, Univ has become the home for they teach the participants how to A presentation of the Jewish publishing house of “The Ark,” an international, live and work together, understanding Hesharim was held at the UCU Library as part interreligious youth seminar of and valuing their diversity. of the Publishers’ Forum in Lviv.

55 Ac a d e m i c s Business Guided by Virtue The goal of the Lviv Business School, The MBA which began working with UCU program of the in February, is to unite educational Lviv Business programs with management, general School started human values, culture and spirituality. soon after In April, the school started its Key the school’s Executive MBA program, a daring founding. move just a few months after the school’s conception. According to Director Sophia Opatska, a new business school at UCU will deepen mutual understanding among businesses, the educational community and society, and promote Christian values. “We say that business can be conducted in a respectable manner in Ukraine, The Other Europe: Exploring modern Europe is seen somewhat with consideration for workers,” said Alternatives stereotypically,” said Dr. Volodymyr Opatska. “[Let’s]not forget about Turchynovskyy, Chair of UCU’s ecology, and thoughts for the future. “Europe and Christian values” is the Department of Philosophy. That is, now it is not simply enough to theme of the newly created certificate make money quickly and efficiently; “We are accustomed to the thought program of UCU’s Philosophy that Christianity has carried out its today the question about how we Department. The hope is to unite make money is also important.” historical mission in Europe, and students around a philosophical now we are reducing it to the role of Despite its youth, the Lviv Business understanding of European identity a domesticated animal, which is good School is already known abroad. and values. The certificate program, and gentle, but not at all important. “Teaching business in the context of “The Other Europe: Exploring But is this really how it is? I am not a university that bases its educational Alternatives,” includes two semesters certain. I think that in 10 years we will program on spirituality has great of study and a summer school with an see the results of the processes that are prospects. In this case, a business school international conference. occurring in this Europe. This is the becomes not only an institution where The program has attracted not other Europe that we are discussing,” they study business and management, only students but also people said Dr. Turchynovskyy. but a catalyst for changes in the life with high academic standing, doctoral The Summer Philosophy School was of Ukrainian society,” said Michel candidates, and even university professors. a valuable experience that gathered Camdessus, former General Director approximately 40 people from 11 of the International Monetary Fund. “The theme of Christianity in Ukrainian cities and teachers from Sophia Opatska, Director of various countries. Students and young scholars in philosophy, experts the Lviv Business School in cultural and literary studies, “UCU is one of those few theologians, and political scientists educational institutions that attended the summer school. unites the spirit of learning through the ages and modernity. According to Dr. Czeslaw Porebski, Management gurus say that a teacher at the school and professor innovations happen when things of the Centre for European Studies that on first glance cannot at the Jagiellonian University in be united are united: this is Krakow, Ukrainian students often precisely what the joining of the lack information about Europe and practicality of business and the the structure of the European Union. intellectual and spiritual depth But they compensate for this with of UCU is.” enthusiasm, the desire to study, and the courage to look for answers. 6 Seminars, Lectures, and Conferences

University-Wide Conferences • Symposium of Catholic Universities of Central and Eastern Europe • Armenian-Ukrainian International Academic Conference Institute of Ecumenical Studies • Ecumenical Social Week “Help Your Neighbor!” • Seminar on mixed marriages Institute of Religion and Society • 100th anniversary of the birth of General Petro Hryhorenko, dissident, and fighter for human rights “In the 20th century Western civilization ‘soaked up’ certain prejudices. UCU can make its contribution in overcoming • “For a World without the Death Penalty” Conference these, inasmuch as it is able to propose to both East and West • “Conflicts and Reconciliation through the Prism of important truths.” Faith,” the 11th All-Ukrainian Scholarly and Practical –Leonardo Cardinal Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Conference for Students and Young Scholars Oriental Churches, during his visit • “Lecture of Freedom,” in memory of journalist Oleksandr Kryvenko • Round table on “The Relevance and Effectiveness of Christian Social Teaching” New Publications Institute of Liturgical Studies • Socially Oriented Documents of the • “Severinus Boethius as a Philosopher and Theologian” Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church: • “The Typology of Sources for Ukrainian Church History in the 1989-2008 presents the position of Middle Ages” the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Institute of Church History on various social questions, such as • “Historical Bases of the Identity of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic government, property, wealth and Church in the Theological Thought of Josyf Slipyj” poverty, human rights, wages, war and Department of Theology reconciliation. The book is the result of two years of painstaking work • Conference on the theological legacy of St. John Chrysostom by UCU’s Institute of Religion and Department of Classical, Byzantine and Medieval Studies Society. • A series of historical and philological seminars Speakers • UCU Professor Rostyslav Paranko • Kateryna Yushchenko, First Lady of Ukraine and Chairperson of the received honors for his translation Ukraine 3000 Foundation of the Theological Tractates of • Renato Raffaele Cardinal Martino, President of the Pontifical Roman philosopher and theologian Council for Justice and Peace, “War and Peace in the Modern World: Severinus Boethius from Lviv Challenges for the Church” National University, the International • Noted film director Krzysztof Zanussi, “Between East and West” Renaissance Foundation, and the newspaper 24 for an achievement in • Academic Myroslav Popovych, “The Human Being and Freedom” the field of academic translation. • Dr. Leon Chameides, a Jew whom Metropolitan Sheptytsky saved In addition to the literary value of during World War II the translation, it is also important • Deacon Andrei Kuraev, a Russian theologian because it is one of the first attempts to • Russian dissident Mykola Muratov, who helped the Ukrainian Greek develop methodological principles for Catholic Church come out of the underground re-creating in the Ukrainian language • Mirna Nazzour, a modern mystic from Syria the philosophical and theological • Dr. Roman Procyk, Director of the Ukrainian Studies Fund terminology of the late ancient and • Dr. Frank Sysyn, professor at the University of Alberta medieval Latin West. 77 Tr a n s f o r m i n g So c i e t y Work with Society’s Neediest UCU Chaplain UCU emphasizes to its students Fr. Volodymyr both intellectual achievement and Lyupak ministers social ministry. During their studies, to the sick at the students participate in a variety of Lviv psychiatric projects with the needy, including the hospital with homeless, the sick, people with special the help of UCU needs, and orphans. students and staff. Recently, UCU’s Department of Social Pedagogy started a project to care for orphan children in institutions of the Lviv Region. Now some 10 students studying social pedagogy are taking part in the program, and their main task is work with children with learning disabilities at a boarding school in the village of Verkhnie Synovydne. As part of the project, Council Named Lviv’s Best the students celebrate church holy care and understanding. Student Government days with the children, catechize, take “Visiting the children, I myself learn Among the numerous institutions trips, and conduct various creative much from them, because they’re workshops. of higher education in the city of open, sincere, and talented,” said Lviv, the best student government The students have begun their work Oksana Oleshko, a participant in the organization is at the Ukrainian with enthusiasm, for it demands not project. Catholic University. Such was the only knowledge but also the ability to UCU students have also begun to conclusion of Tetiana Yatskiv, head work with children who need special reach out a helping hand to another of the Committee to Support Student category of the needy, patients at the Government, based on investigations Lviv psychiatric hospital. “The idea of similar student organizatons of this volunteer project is to listen in Lviv. to people who truly are rejected by “Very good practices in the society, because the mentally ill are, functioning of student government for others, somehow frightening. But as the representative and defender of really these are prejudices that we try the rights of students and the student to overcome. Not all these people have body have been established at UCU,” mental problems. They are simply said Yatskiv. lonely and end up there through the indifference of others,” said Halyna In electing their Student Council, Deva, a student of the Faculty of UCU students use a party system. That Philosophy and Theology. is, in order to be elected to the student parliament, individual people are not Some 10 students of the faculty in competition but coordinated teams volunteer to visit the patients and conduct an election campaign and talk with them about life and spiritual develop campaign platforms. matters. UCU’s psychologist conducts special training for the volunteers, “The Student Council is the start of which gives them practical knowledge movement into a great reality,” said for interaction with the patients. Deva UCU Rector Fr. Borys Gudziak. noted that the patients become very “This is the initial public square which Students of social pedagogy visit orphans accustomed to the volunteers and can foster many habits that may in the in institutions, including at Easter. really wait for them, and so they truly future help the students become active feel that they are doing a good work. participants in civil society.” 88 Renewing the Tradition of Student Theatre Performs at Philanthropy Secretariat of the President In the spring, UCU celebrated with of Ukraine two charity balls open to the public. At the invitation of the head of the The UCU students organized the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine, first ball to gather costs for the UCU’s amateur student theatre group medical treatment of a boy suffering “On the Stairs” staged a traditional from hydrocephaly. The charity ball Ukrainian vertep (Christmas play) for collected $2,000 USD to the great staff of the president’s office in Kyiv. surprise of the organizers. Rather, In addition, the UCU students they had hoped to turn the public’s performed their vertep at the National attention to the misfortune of an Academy of Public Administration of ordinary small family. “We’re not the President of Ukraine and at Roman talking about global, world changes. Catholic parishes in the capital. An But together as a community we UCU graduate, formerly working at want to help a small, concrete family,” the Secretariat, is now working at the explained Halyna Shostak, a student National Academy. who organized the ball. Local politicians were among those Among the interested audience The second spring ball, “Perelaz,” participating in UCU’s first charity folk ball. members of the vertep was Vitali was held in the style of a traditional Klitschko, heavyweight champion of Ukrainian folk evening. The goal the World Boxing Council. was to establish a scholarship fund and raised more than $10,000 USD. for UCU’s best students, named after UCU’s student theatre group last Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, “This university exists exclusively year debuted at the “Ladder,” the 4th head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic thanks to funds from donors, generally International Festival of Amateur Church from 1901 to 1944. The folk foreigners. We would like UCU Theatrical Art in Lviv. Twenty ball gathered a few dozen Ukrainian to receive more support from our theatres from various regions of businessmen interested in supporting wealthy compatriots, and we hope Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Russia, the development of national education to build up the university, together Poland, Romania, and Germany were and of UCU as one of the most with you, in service to Lviv and our represented at the festival, at which ambitious educational projects in country,” said Fr. Borys Gudziak UCU received an award for the musical Ukraine. The charity auction sold art during the ball. setting of the play The Prophet. Student Profile: Marianna Andrashko Born in the town of Korolevo in the organized Prayerful Family into the Transcarpathia Region, Andrashko first center of the Faith and Light was reared in Uzhhorod. She comes movement for the developmentally from a family of priests. She graduated disabled, their families, and friends from a musical college and later in the Greek Catholic Eparchy of worked in a music school. Mukachiv (Transcarpathia). She Then she entered UCU’s Catechetical- considers UCU her home. Pedagogical Institute, where she “In my childhood I dreamed of studied for two years. At that time ‘studying religion.’ So, when I she organized in Uzhhorod a youth learned about UCU, regardless of community, Prayerful Family, which the fact that I already had a college gathered weekly for joint prayers education, I decided to enter. My and meditation on Holy Scripture. experience of contact with staff, Subsequently she decided to study teachers, and students – who are at UCU’s Faculty of Philosophy and a part of our Church, outside of Theology. Here she joined a missionary which I cannot see myself – is movement: In 2005, she and other inestimable for me. Participating in students evangelized youth in far the Student Council gives me new “In my childhood I dreamed of ‘studying religion,’” eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Region opportunities to understand what I says Marianna Andrashko, a second-year student for a month. On her return, she re- am capable of.” in UCU’s Faculty of Philosophy and Theology. 99 UCU Ov e r v i e w

The Ukrainian Catholic University has two campuses and plans to build a third. UCU has a Faculty of Philosophy and Theology and also a Humanities Faculty, both which award bachelor’s and master’s degrees. In addition there are numerous scholarly and teaching institutes and other departments.

Faculty of Philosophy and Theology Seminary Department Graduates Total number of students – 164 This year the university graduated These young men are from various regions of Ukraine, 217 students, including 115 from the Faculty and also Belarus, Canada, Kazakhstan, and Poland. of Philosophy and Theology and 80 from the Twenty-six are members of the following religious Catechetical-Pedagogical Institute. orders: Studites, Redemptorists, and Don Orione. Teaching Staff General Department 105 (including 22 alumni of UCU) Total number of students – 110 Summer Programs There are 58 women and 52 men from various regions of Ukraine, Approximately 400 students from Ukraine and abroad and also Belarus, Brazil, Canada, took part in 10 programs: and Russia. Five are members of English Summer School religious orders. Ukrainian-Language Summer School Humanities Faculty Italian-Language Summer School (in Italy) Total number of students – 171 English Week (students from Lviv-area high schools) This includes 109 in the history program and 62 in the Theology Summer School social pedagogy program. Icon-Painting School Catechetical-Pedagogical Institute Choir Directors’ Summer School Students in part-time and evening programs – 295 Voice of the Future Summer Leadership School Special Ecumenical Programs (children 11-17 years old) UCU’s Institute of Ecumenical Studies offers various Lay Leadership Summer School master’s programs. There is a traditional master’s program in ecumenical studies, and also two distance Philosophy Summer School learning programs through the Internet, one offered in (students and young scholars from the Ukrainian language and focusing on ecumenical various cities of Ukraine) journalism and one in the English language. Information available at: www.iesdistance.org.ua

10 Thanks to Our International Partners T he Ukrainian C a t h o l i c U n i v e r s i t y i s a m e m b e r o f s e v e r a l a c a d e m i c associations, including the International Federation of Catholic Universities, the Federation of Catholic Universities of Europe, and the Artes Liberales UCU Ov e r v i e w Inter-University Program. In addition, the university has a broad range of relationships with many international friends and partners who helped make this year a success. Through their generosity and collaboration, a new generation of students and scholars is at work in Ukraine.

Aid to the Church in Need (Germany) ACLS (USA) Lviv National University (Ukraine) Anonymous Foundations (Europe) National Museum in Lviv (Ukraine) UCU Hosts Catholic Artes Liberales Inter-University National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Universities of Central and program (Poland) Academy (Ukraine) Eastern Europe Ave Maria College (USA) Oleksa Novakivskyi Foundation Dr. A. James McAdams, director of the Bradley Foundation (USA) (Ukraine) Nanovic Institute for European Studies Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies Our Sunday Visitor Foundation (USA) of the University of Notre Dame of the Catholic University of America (USA) Pasmany Peter Catholic University U.S. (pictured above at center), wanted Catholic University of Eichstatt-¨ (Hungary) to implement his university’s desire Ingolstadt (Germany) Pastorales Forum (Austria) to unite the Catholic universities Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) Peace Corps (USA-Ukraine) of Central and Eastern Europe. His labors came to fruition in 2005, when Catholic University of Lyon (France) Peter Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Research (Canada) these universities joined in an informal Catholic University of Lublin (Poland) association. Central European University (Hungary) Pontifical Biblical Institute (Italy) Centre for Byzantine Studies (Romania) Pontifical Institute ofP atristics (Italy) That group, the Association of Catholic PontificalO riental Institute (Italy) Universities of Central and Eastern Centra Aletti (Italy) Europe, is unique because of the small CNEWA (Canada) Radboud University Nijmegen (Holland) Renovabis (Germany) number of Catholic universities in CNEWA (USA) such a large geographical area. (The Collegium Orientale (Germany) Sabre Foundation (USA) Nanovic Institute for European Studies Communicantes (Netherlands) Sabre-Svitlo (Ukraine) promoted uniting the universities.) Congregation for Eastern Churches Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Created in 2005, the association (Vatican) Christian Studies (Canada) is very young. Every year it holds Diocese of Brooklyn (USA) Society of Jesus (Poland) meetings to give all the members of Diocese of Hildesheim (Germany) Society of St. Sophia (USA, Italy) the organization the opportunity to become better acquainted with the Diocese of Mantua (Italy) St. Florian Foundation (USA) St. John’s University (USA) universities and the conditions of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes countries of the various members. (France) Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation (USA, Canada) This year UCU hosted the participants Embassy of France (Ukraine) of the meeting, which considered the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchies U.S. Embassy (Ukraine) spiritual dimension of education. (USA, Canada) Fulbright Scholarship Program (USA) Ukrainian Institute of New York (USA) “The Ukrainian Catholic University is Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute the smallest member of this association, Ukrainian Patriarchal Societies (USA) though our weight in the intellectual (USA, UK) Henri Nouwen Foundation life of Lviv and Ukraine is already (Netherlands) Ukrainian Religious Society of St. Sophia fairly well acknowledged,” said Olena (UK, USA, Italy, Belgium) Holy Spirit Seminary (Ukraine) Dzhedzhora, head of the university’s Ukrainian Studies Fund (USA) International Renaissance Foundation Department of International Academic (Ukraine) United States Conference of Catholic Relations. “We hope that our partners Bishops (USA) IREX (USA) not only will become better acquainted University of St. Thomas (USA) Journal YI (Ukraine) with our work and projects, but that we University of Warsaw (Poland) will be able to develop a full-fledged Kharkiv Autocephalous Orthodox and productive exchange of students Seminary (Ukraine) University of Wurzburg¨ (Germany) Weston Jesuit School of Theology (USA) and create joint educational and L’Arche International (France, Canada) research projects.” Library of Congress (USA) and many individuals who donated their Lviv Art Gallery (Ukraine) time and resources 1111 Contact us in Ukraine: Ukrainian Catholic University vul. llariona Sventsitskoho,17 Lviv, 79011, Ukraine phone: 380 322/40-99-40 fax: 380 322/40-99-50 e-mail: [email protected] www.ucu.edu.ua In USA: Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation 2247 W. 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