Establishment of a Reformed Order Osbmr

СИНОД ЄПИСКОПІВ УПГКЦ вул. Соснова, 3, Львів - Брюховичі, 79491, Україна Bishops’ Synod of the UOGCC, 3 Sosnova St., Lvov - Bryukhovychi, 79491, Ukraine тел./факс: +38(032) 234-63-41, www.community.org.ua, www.uogcc.org.ua, [email protected]

His Holiness Benedict XVI Città del Vaticano

Establishment of a reformed order – OSBMr

Your Holiness, Superior General OSBM Basil Koubetch as well as Provincial Superior of the Ukrainian Province OSBM Joannicius Chverenchuk have excluded themselves from the Church by reason of their unity with heresies of ex-Card. L. Husar. Therefore, in order to separate from the heretical and apostatical branch, we, the undersigned Bishops of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church, have established a renewed branch of the Order of St. Basil the Great under the name of “The Order of St. Basil the Great – reformed”, abbreviated to OSBMr. On 14th January 2010, on the feast of St. Basil the Great, we, the below-named bishops of the UOGCC, took our perpetual vows in this reformed branch: + Markian V. Hitiuk OSBMr + Samuel R. Oberhauser OSBMr + Metoděj R. Špiřík OSBMr + Timotej P. Sojka OSBMr + Bazil P. Kolodi OSBMr + Eliáš A. Dohnal OSBMr We emphasize that to the third vow we added a fourth one – to defend the nature of the papacy on the pattern of St. Basil the Great, i.e. to help You in the fight for the purity of faith and morals against contemporary heresies, in the fight for the renewal of the Church. We fully consider ourselves to be, not formally only but de facto, a religious order of pontifical right. Asking for Your blessing and praying for You, Your faithful bishops of the UOGCC

Lvov (Ukraine), 15th January 2010

P.S.: We attach the formula of our perpetual vows. Translation of the formula

Perpetual vows in the reformed order – OSBMr

I ______, following the example and the Rules of St. Basil the Great, make the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience to the Triune God.

Likewise, on the pattern of St. Basil the Great, I promise to protect the nature of the papacy and of Christ’s Church in the fight against heresies.

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