INSIDE:• Interview with Patriarch Filaret — page 3. • Ambassador to Kyiv addresses TWG forum — page 8. • Soyuzivka opens 44th summer season — centerfold.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXVI HE KRAINIANNo. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1998 EEKLY$1.25/$2 in Ukraine OrthodoxT parishesU in the U.S. VerkhovnaW Rada elects vice-chairs ask to join Kyiv Patriarchate Committee chairmanships divided among factions by Irene Jarosewich eral parishes was submitted this past by Roman Woronowycz Agrarians) received two committees; and spring from an ad hoc coalition of parish Kyiv Press Bureau the Social Democrats (United), with 25 PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The division councils, The All-Ukrainian Committee members, took one committee, as did the among Ukrainian Orthodox faithful in “Coalition of Parishes in the Diaspora for KYIV – Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada Greens, with 24 members. The Progressive the U.S. regarding the vision and future elected two vice-chairpersons on July 10, the Kyiv Patriarchate,” which had been Socialist faction, which has 16 members, of their Church deepened recently when and approved the chairpersons of its 22 par- founded in 1997, and is headed by Wasyl was not voted a committee chairmanship. the request of several parishes in the U.S. liamentary committees. Kosohor of Chicago. Chairman Tkachenko has said the first to be accepted under the omophorion of According to the Rev. Posakiwsky, the The national deputies agreed to the can- the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv didacies put forward by the Verkhovna order of business for the newly seated decision of the parishes to leave the Parliament, which took two months to elect Patriarchate (UOC-KP) was granted. On Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Rada’s recently elected chairman, May 29, at a meeting of the Synod of the Oleksander Tkachenko, after four days of a chairman, would be to review and U.S.A. was due to the “betrayal of the endorse the new 1998 budget that President Kyiv Patriarchate, a statement was issued clergy and faithful by the hierarchs of the discussions among the eight factions that officially accepting the parishes of St. make up the Parliament. Leonid Kuchma has resubmitted. The presi- UOC-U.S.A., who promised loyalty to dent has altered the budget in order to Sophia of Chicago, St. Stephen Church Constantinople.” Adam Martyniuk, the second secretary of the Millennium of Brunswick, Ohio, of the Communist Party, which holds more reduce the deficit from 3.3 percent to 2.5 “They did this beyond the knowledge percent. Mr. Tkachenko has agreed to keep and St. Nicholas of Cooper City, Fla., of our faithful and clergy,” he continued, than a quarter of all parliamentary seats, the Parliament in session past its scheduled under the jurisdiction of Kyiv. “we are, our Church is, ‘sobornopravna’ was given the nod as the first vice-chair- July 17 recess date to the end of the month. On July 12-13, via teleconference that [governed by hierarchs, clergy and laity]. man. Viktor Medvedchuk, a leading figure Mr. Tkachenko also told the president hooked up clergy and representatives of the Only our bishops joined Constantinople – of the Social Democratic Party (United) that he supports the economic decrees that parish councils of the three parishes, The they gave [Patriarch] Bartholomew their was elected second vice-chairman. Committee of Ukrainian Orthodox Parishes approval, they did not give him our Mr. Martyniuk, 47, is a former first sec- Mr. Kuchma has issued and would work to of the Kyiv Patriarchate, a new Church approval.” retary of the Lviv Oblast Communist Party get them passed by the legislature. structure, was established and the Rt. Rev. According to Lubomyr Husak, head of and secretary of the Kyiv City Committee Stephan Posakiwsky appointed its adminis- the St. Nicholas Parish Council, “Our of the Communist Party, while Mr. trator. A fourth parish, Holy Trinity of parish changed its parish statute in Medvedchuk, 44, was a presidential advisor North Royalton, Ohio, which was accepted February, so that the spiritual alliance is on tax policy issues and is currently presi- by Kyiv shortly after the first three, was determined by the parish. For almost two dent of the Ukrainian Barristers Union and NATO chief sees also included in the new organization. years we have been discussing this move. president of the law BIM firm. Though individual parishes on sepa- In the biosketch he submitted prior to his Bound Brook acted outside authority of the Ukraineby Roman as Woronowycz supplier rate occasions had appealed to Patriarch existing statute in 1995 when it went to election as vice-chairman, Mr. Medved- Filaret of the UOC-KP to accept diaspora chuk reported 1997 earnings of 1,880,308 Kyiv Press Bureau parishes, an organized request from sev- (Continued on page 3) hrv (approximately $940,000). Mr. KYIV – NATO Secretary-General Martyniuk did not report any earnings. Javier Solana made his fourth visit to A majority, 235 national deputies, sup- Ukraine on July 8-9, which included a visit Toronto’s Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy ported the candidacies. to a formerly top secret Ukrainian military The Verkhovna Rada also agreed, after installation to explore the country’s poten- heated discussions, that the chairmanships tial as a supplier of military equipment for subjected to major reassignments of its 22 committees should be divided up NATO’s vast military arsenal. according to the proportion of deputies who The NATO secretary-general spent by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj tives ... unfinished,” but added that he is belong to each of the eight factions. part of one day at the PivdenMash rocket Toronto Press Bureau looking forward to returning to an Accordingly, the Communists, with 121 factory in the city of Dnipropetrovsk, eparchy in which he has served for 25 of members, received six committees; the TORONTO — Three weeks after the once directed by the current president of his 45 years of priesthood. National Democrats, who number 91, five Ukraine, which is now deeply involved Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Toronto The Winnipeg-born Bishop Pasichny committees; Hromada, with 45 members, celebrated its 50th anniversary, both in developing rockets for the Sea Launch was consecrated as Saskatchewan’s four committees; Rukh, with 47 members, satellite-launching project in a joint ven- major players in the contentious dispute eparch in January 1996. Ordained as a took three committees; the 35 members of that had divided it in recent years have priest in Rome in July 1953, he returned the Left-Center faction (Socialists and (Continued on page 15) been removed. The Bishop of Saskatoon to Canada the next year to pursue studies has been relocated and appointed as in philosophy at the University of Ottawa eparch of Toronto. and in 1958 became interim pastor of the The Canadian Council of Catholic parish in the Canadian capital. Kuchma-Gore committees meet in D.C. Bishops on July 2 issued a press release In 1959-1973 he was first assistant announcing that the eparchy had been by Yaro Bihun Minister for Economic reforms Serhii superior then superior at the Basilian Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Tyhypko and U.S. Deputy Treasury declared vacant by the Vatican on June monastery in Ottawa, and lectured in phi- 24, with Bishop Isidore Borecky in Secretary David Lipton. The trade and losophy at the University of Ottawa. For WASHINGTON – Two high-level retirement and Apostolic Administrator investment committee was headed by the next nine years he served as editor of Ukrainian government delegations Bishop Roman Danylak reassigned to Minister of Foreign Economic the Basilian order’s official organ, The held talks here on July 8-10 with their “special responsibilities in Rome.” Relations and Trade Serhii Osyka of Beacon, and served as assistant superior American counterparts in preparation As of July 1, Bishop Cornelius to the order’s monastery in Weston, a Ukraine, and U.S. Commerce Pasichny, 72, a Basilian, is the new eparch. for the second meeting of the Kuchma- Department Counselor Yan Kalicki. suburb of Toronto. Gore Binational Commission to be No mention was made of who might suc- In 1982 he returned to Ottawa for a Both committees worked to narrow ceed Bishop Pasichny in the western held in Kyiv on July 22-23. the gap between the two countries on a three-year stint as spiritual director of the They were participating in the exec- Canadian eparchy, nor was there any elab- Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Seminary number of issues – some long-standing utive sessions of two of the commis- oration on what Bishop Danylak’s “special and assistant pastor at the St. John the and some new. Neither side would say sion’s committees, one dealing with responsibilities” might be. Baptist Church. In 1985 he returned to how they fared, but sources say the sustainable economic cooperation and In his own press release, also issued his home town, Winnipeg, to serve as overall impression among the partici- on July 2, Bishop Pasichny expressed pastor at St. Nicholas Church, among the other with trade and investment. pants was positive. regret that he was leaving Saskatchewan other duties. He was appointed eparch of The economic committee was after just over two years of service with chaired by Ukraine’s Vice Prime (Continued on page 15) “a number of promising renewal initia- (Continued on page 15) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1998 No. 29

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Kuchma chats with Tkachenko he commented. In his opinion, the Moldova, Ukraine squabble Parliament’s main task is to pass legislation KYIV – According to Presidential Press to overcome the economic crisis. He over oil transfer terminal Secretary Oleksander Maidannyk, President expressed his belief that Ukraine’s three by Stefan Korshak However, Kyiv is arguing that because the Leonid Kuchma spoke by phone with branches of government will find “deep RFE/RL Newsline terminal is only a few kilometers upstream newly elected Rada Chairman Oleksander state understanding.” He added that he in the middle of Europe’s largest wetland, Tkachenko and told him that he is looking believes a parliamentary majority will be KYIV – Plans to build an oil transfer the project endangers the environment. forward to “constructive cooperation with formed by September. He also announced terminal in Moldova are stirring opposition “One of the most important problems our the, legislature.” The two discussed ways of that he does not intend to run in the 1999 in Ukraine, which is worried about its experts found is that [the terminal] threat- strengthening relations between the legisla- presidential elections. (RFE/RL Newsline) adverse environmental impact. ens our ecology and vulnerable wetlands,” ture, the president and the Cabinet of The $38 million project is scheduled for Mr. Shiroparov said. “We need to make Ministers. President Kuchma said it is nec- Rukh to stay in opposition completion next year. The European Bank sure that our interests are protected.” essary to form a majority in the Verkhovna for Reconstruction and Development The Danube Commission, composed of Rada “that would assume responsibility for KYIV – Vyacheslav Chornovil, leader of (EBRD) is providing a $25.5 million credit representatives from countries bordering the situation in the country, for the urgent Rukh, has said the Verkhovna Rada is con- for the construction of the terminal, which the river, could have been a forum to iron reform of the budgetary and tax systems, trolled by a “nomenklatura-leftist majority,” will allow Moldova to transfer petroleum out differences about the environmental and for approval of the civil, tax, criminal Ukrainian Television reported on July 13. to and from tankers plying the Danube, impact of development in the basin. This and land codes, the economic draft laws Mr. Chornovil expressed his opinion that bringing considerable savings for the small proved, not to be the case, however. which were submitted to the Verkhovna Peasant Party representative Oleksander landlocked country. The Ukrainians charge that the Rada by the Cabinet, and the state budget Tkachenko became chairman because of “This is just the kind of project we Moldovans may have misled them and for 1999.” (Eastern Economist) “betrayal” among right-centrist deputies. need,” noted Moldova Deputy Premier brought to near completion a major indus- “Thus, hopes for a coalition government Minister Ion Gutsu at a recent EBRD con- trial project without providing full informa- Tkachenko optimistic about prospects have been buried,” Ukrainian Television ference. “It will create critical infrastruc- tion on the scope of the work. quoted him as saying. Mr. Chornovil ture ... and enable our economy to grow.” Moldovan project managers counter that KYIV – Oleksander Tkachenko, newly announced that Rukh will remain “in oppo- Ukraine sees the terminal in a very dif- Kyiv has had ample opportunities to learn elected chairman of the Ukrainian sition to all branches of power.” A ferent light. “Our experts recently went to about the Dzhurdzhulesht Terminal, as far Parliament, told journalists on July 8 that he Communist deputy told Ukrainian the site and inspected the project,” said back as 1994. is optimistic about the legislature’s potential Television that Rukh “is trying to play Odesa Regional Administration spokesman “Ukrainian and Moldovan commission- and prospects, Ukrainian Television report- [being in] opposition” because it has been Yuri Shiroparov, “and they found many ers met in Chisinau on November 3, 1994, ed. “The current Parliament is able to func- things wrong with it.” to discuss the problems of the terminal,” tion and it will prove this in practical work,” (Continued on page 17) Situated on the Danube’s left bank, said Deputy General Director of the south of the village of Dzhurdzhulesht and Terminal Yakov Mogorian, in a recent snug up against the Ukrainian border, the newspaper article. “Results of [an inde- terminal could transfer 2.1 million tons of pendent Dutch] study were presented in Parliament elects committee chairs oil annually, giving Moldova an alternative Chisinau on December 9, 1994...[and] on Embassy of Ukraine (National Democratic Party) – Committee to Russian energy deliveries. November 23, The Moldovan side invited on Energy, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Ukraine has no problem with that. [Ukrainian ecological representatives] ... WASHINGTON – On July 10, the Safety; Yurii Kruk (National Democratic but no one came and no one made any Verkhovna Rada approved a resolution Party) – Committee on Construction, Stefan Korshak is an RFE/RL corre- comments.” electing the following national deputies Transportation and Telecommunications; spondent based in Kyiv. There were several permutations of the as heads of its permanent committees: Oleksander Moroz (Socialist Party - project before it was finalized into a Vasyl Sirenko (Communist Party) — Peasants’ Party faction) – Committee on Greek/Moldovan/EBRD joint venture. The Committee on Legal Reform; Oleksander Agriculture Policy and Land Relations; first funds were obtained in late 1996, and Kushnir (Communist Party) — Committee Borys Oliinyk (Communist Party) – Pivdenmash, Case by 1997 Dutch general contractor Fredric on State-Building, Local Self-Governance, Committee on Foreign Affairs and R. Harris had begun construction. and Local Councils; Yevhen Marchuk Relations with the CIS; Yurii Samoilenko set up joint venture Kyiv now demands that Harris’s blue- (Social Democratic Party - United) — (Green Party) – Committee on Eastern Economist prints be approved by its Ministry of Committee on Social Policy and Labor; Environmental Policy, Natural Resources Environmental Protection. Protests have Serhii Shevchuk (National Democratic and Elimination of the Consequences of KYIV – Yurii Alekseiev, director gen- been made to the Danube Commission Party) – Committee on Health, Mothers Chornobyl; Yurii Karmazyn (Hromada) – eral of the huge Pivdenmash manufactur- and, more recently, Ukraine has tightened and Children; Ivan Kyrylenko (Hromada) Committee on Legal Basis for Law- ing facility, and Jean-Pierre Rossaue, border control near the frontier town of – Committee on Youth, Physical Culture Enforcement Activities and the Fight president of U.S.-based Case, signed an Reni. Dotted with woodlands, lakes and and Sports; Volodymyr Semynozhenko Against Organized Crime and Corruption; agreement on June 22 creating the joint swamps, the Danube frontier near Reni and (National Democratic Party) – Committee Heorhii Kriuchkov (Communist Party) – venture DniproCase. The JV will use Dzhurdzhulesht once was a place where on Science and Education; Les Taniuk Committee on National Security and Case’s technology to make 250 HP trac- hunters could shoot ducks and fishermen (Rukh) – Committee on Culture and Defense; Viktor Omelych (Hromada) – tors in Dnipropetrovsk. could hook pike without much attention to Spirituality; Stanislav Hurenko Committee on Rules, Deputies’ Ethics and The JV hopes to roll out 500 new trac- passports. This is no longer the case. (Communist Party) – Committee on Organization of the Verkhovna Rada; Ivan tors by the end of 1998 and DniproCase “The Ukrainian border troops’ defensive Economic Policy, Economy Management, Chyzh (Socialist Party - Peasants’ Party hopes to manufacture 4,000 to 4,500 trac- works and barbed wire opposite the termi- Property and Investment; Yulia faction) – Committee on Freedom of tors per year within five years. Within nal construction site are more intense than Tymoshenko (Hromada) – Committee on Speech and Information; Hennadii three to four years these tractors will be what you would see on the Tajik-Afghan the Budget; Valerii Alioshyn (Rukh) – Udovenko (Rukh) – Committee on Human assembled using Ukrainian-made parts. border,” said Mr. Mogorian. Committee on Finance and Banking Rights, National Minorities and Interethnic The JV will also market, sell and service There is little prospect that the dispute Activities; Anatolii Kinakh (National Relations; Victor Lutsenko (Communist Case tractors in Ukraine. will end any time soon. Democratic Party) – Committee on Party) – Committee on Pensioners, Industrial Policy; Mykhailo Kovalko Veterans and Disabled Persons. 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agree to refrain from advocating an inde- Orthodox parishes... pendent Ukrainian Orthodox Church in INTERVIEW: Patriarch Filaret (Continued from page 1) Ukraine. The protocol, dated June 11, Constantinople.” 1995, appeared on the Internet on the Both Mr. Husak and the Rev. website of the Orthodox Press Service. on Ukrainian Orthodoxy Posakiwsky claim that the decision of the The bishops of the Permanent Council remind the Kyiv Patriarchate that an orig- by Roman Woronowycz tions with the leadership of the UOC- hierarchs of the UOC-U.S.A. to join with Kyiv Press Bureau U.S.A. ...We want our diaspora to maintain Patriarch Bartholomew is not only an inal of the alleged document has never been provided and in their statement its unity internally and in its relations with issue of breached loyalty, but brings with KYIV – Patriarch Filaret (Denysenko) allude to the possibility that the document Ukraine. it a host of questions, such as: the dispo- was appointed the third patriarch of Kyiv could be viewed as deliberate misinfor- However, [the three parishes] had sition of Church property; allocation of and all Rus’-Ukraine by the Synod of mation. The bishops claim that they have already left the UOC-U.S.A. and even had parish and Church funds; the right of Bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church not swayed from their position of con- begun to blame us to an extent because we liturgical concelebration with hierarchs – Kyiv Patriarchate in October 1995 after vincing the leaders of world Orthodoxy of were not accepting them. They said that and clergy from the various Orthodox the sudden death of Patriarch Volodymyr the right of Ukrainian Orthodox for an they had continuously supported the Kyiv Churches in Ukraine; church governance; Romaniuk in July. Until then Patriarch Patriarchate and had fought for Ukraine, independent Church in Ukraine. Filaret had been assistant to the patriarch. and the form and nature of the relations for an autocephalous Church. Now that The bishops’ statement of June 14 also In the spring of 1992, Filaret, then a among the hierarchs, clergy and laity, such a Church exists, one for which they addresses the inconsistencies in the metropolitan, had sought autocephaly from none of which were fully answered. had fought their whole lives, this Church actions of the Kyiv Patriarchate, most Moscow for Ukraine’s Orthodox – a The Ukrainian Orthodox Church in was not ready to accept them, they claimed. notably in efforts to create a unified request that was rejected. His continued Canada accepted the omophorion of We decided that morally we could not Church in Ukraine, as well as the hostile advocacy of an autocephalous Ukrainian Constantinople in 1990, but, claims Mr. reject them once they found themselves attitude of the Kyiv Patriarchate towards Orthodox Church led to his excommunica- Husak, “They had a reason. There was no outside the boundaries of a Church. the hierarchs of the Church in the West. tion by the Russian Orthodox Church in independent Ukraine at the time. ... Their This, however, does not mean that we The statement calls into question the wis- June 1992. Sobor voted to change their statute, and will be interfering in the matters [of the dom, legality and canonical status of the The following interview includes the then went to Constantinople. Beforehand, UOC-U.S.A.]. We maintain today that only action taken by the Kyiv Patriarchate in controversy that has arisen from the UOC- they printed in full the proposed agree- the hierarchy and spiritual leadership of accepting the parishes from the West – none KP’s recent acceptance of Ukrainian ment. In the U.S., it’s the opposite. The of which have yet been officially released that Church can change the situation that Orthodox parishes in the United States full text of the official agreement was from the UOC-U.S.A. In fact, the bishops has developed in the United States. after they announced their withdrawal from never published.” from the West request that the Synod of the It is not simply that these parishes do not the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the The Ukrainian Orthodox hierarchs in Kyiv Patriarchate rescind its May 29 deci- U.S.A. want to subordinate themselves to the West responded to the May 29 state- sion regarding the U.S. parishes and that it Constantinople. They want to be under ment made by the Sobor of the Kyiv provide a written statement promising that PARTI Kyiv because Patriarch Mstyslav, who led Patriarchate with their own statement in the future it will not accept parishes from the Church in the United States also issued from the third annual meeting of the West and will focus exclusively on cre- Your Holiness, please explain the deci- became the Kyiv patriarch. the Permanent Conference of Ukrainian ating a unified Church in Ukraine. sion taken by the Synod of the Ukrainian Since he was the patriarch of Kyiv they Orthodox Bishops Beyond the Borders of However, organizers of the movement Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate became part of that Church. Today they do Ukraine, held June 12-14 in Winnipeg. in the U.S. to unite with the Kyiv on May 29, 1998, to accept Ukrainian not want to split from the Kyiv Patriarchate The hierarchs categorically deny that Patriarchate, such as Messrs. Husak and Orthodox parishes in the United States. and subordinate themselves to a different they ever agreed to not promote the auto- Kosohor, and the Rev. Posakiwsky, remain patriarch, the patriarch of Constantinople. cephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church undeterred. The Rev. Posakiwsky said he Our decision was tied to an issue involv- This is the main issue. in Ukraine – a denial in response to accu- believes many more parishes in the U.S. ing a few parishes in the United States who A second issue is that many priests were sations that have been leveled at the bish- will join the movement to unite with the found themselves outside of the Ukrainian not allowed to serve divine liturgy because ops by the Kyiv Patriarchate, as well as Kyiv Patriarchate. Orthodox Church of the United States of of their views. That only added fuel to the faithful in the U.S., based on a ubiquitous The new committee has already America (UOC-U.S.A.) and turned to us. fire. document, the so-called Protocol 937. broached the idea of inviting Patriarch They were part of the UOC-U.S.A. but The protocol, ostensibly a letter from Filaret to travel to the U.S. later this fall, then left it. ...We were faced with a decision Did the parishes make their request Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople after the Sobor in South Bound Brook whether to accept or reject their member- together or separately? to Patriarch Aleksei of Moscow, states scheduled for October, and claim to have ship in our Church. Separately. At first they gave notice that that Ukrainian Orthodox bishops, as part agreement in principle from the patriarch For us it was a difficult question because of their agreement with Constantinople, that he will do so. we realized that it could influence our rela- (Continued on page 14) Remarks on the history of Ukrainian Orthodoxy in Ukraine and North America by Frank Sysyn The Russian state soon dismantled the Kyiv when, despairing at the continued antagonism of the Metropolitanate as a distinct Church and integrated it Russian and Russified bishops to the Ukrainian Church The current debate about the decision of the into the Russian Orthodox Church. By the 19th centu- movement, a group of priests and laity decided to estab- Ukrainian Orthodox Churches of the United States and ry the Russian Empire and the Russian Orthodox lish a Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Canada to submit to the authority of the patriarch of Church propagated a world view that saw Ukrainians (UAOC), reviving an ancient Alexandrian rite that did Constantinople (the U.S. in 1995, Canada in 1990), and as a mere regional group of Russians with no signifi- not require having bishops consecrated by other the implications of these decisions for relations with the cant Church and cultural traditions of their own. This Orthodox bishops. However, many Orthodox in Ukraine Ukrainian Orthodox Churches of Ukraine, has attracted viewpoint never fully prevailed, in part because some and abroad rejected this radical step (called by its ene- the interest of wider circles of the laity and the Ukrainians lived outside the Russian Empire and Ukrainian community in Church affairs. As all polemics, mies the “self-consecration”) and considered the Church because the existence of Uniates, or Orthodox the current one contains much information, but is selec- and its hierarchs to be illegitimate. Ukrainians united with Rome, created a group that tive in its presentation and unlikely to provide a bal- The Soviet destruction of the UAOC in the late could not fit in this model. anced picture for the unengaged. While some of infor- 1920s and early 1930s after only a few years of the The political liberation of many Orthodox peoples mation about the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches is readi- Church’s existence gave the Church the aura of heroic (Greeks, Serbs, Bulgarians and Romanians) in the 19th ly available in reference texts such as Ukraine: A martyrdom to many Ukrainian patriots, while its princi- century resulted in the establishment of new auto- Concise Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, ples of autocephaly, Ukrainianization and conciliar gov- cephalous or independent Orthodox Churches and the not to speak of numerous monographs and articles, it ernment influenced subsequent Ukrainian Orthodox erection or re-establishment of patriarchates. These would seem useful to outline some of the major ques- movements. When Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox trends also affected Ukrainians, but in the Russian tions involved in the current debate for readers of The Churches were re-established in 1942 (in the areas of Empire the state and Church persecuted the Ukrainian Ukrainian Weekly and to direct those who are interested western Ukraine that passed from Soviet to German national movement, even forbidding publication of the to further readings. control) and again in 1989 in Ukraine, they reaffirmed Bible in Ukrainian. The church services were in Old the traditional Orthodox practice of consecration of Orthodoxy in Ukraine Slavonic, and therefore were largely incomprehensible bishops, thereby eliminating the argument that the to both Ukrainians and Russians; however, the Russian In 1686 the Kyiv Metropolitanate, which encom- Church hierarchs were not legitimate However, most of Orthodox Church used Russian exclusively in preaching the Orthodox world still considered the Church to be passed Ukraine and Belarus, was transferred from the and writings. jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople to the illegitimate. By the early 20th century many of the Orthodox bish- While the Soviet government opposed all religious Patriarchate of Moscow. This transfer reflected the ops and higher clergy in Ukraine were becoming more growing Russian political influence in Ukraine after groups, after World War II, they did permit the Russian and more Russian nationalist in their orientation, but a Orthodox Church to function in Ukraine, forcing the Pereiaslav Agreement of 1654 between Hetman movement of lower clergy and laity emerged that strove Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the Russian authorities and Ukrainian Orthodox and Uniate (Ukrainian Greek- to use Ukrainian in the Church and to restore the tradi- Catholic) believers to belong to that Church. Therefore, removed the Kyiv Metropolitanate from the position of tions of the Kyiv Metropolitanate. limited administrative subordination to the Mother the national movement in Ukraine in the late 1980s paid The history of Orthodoxy in 20th century Ukraine has considerable attention to Church affairs. For the Church of Constantinople to a position directly under reflected the striving to establish a Ukrainian Orthodox the Russian Church. Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, this meant support of Church and the opposition to this movement by groups the emergence of the Church from the underground and that see Ukraine and its Orthodoxy as properly Russian. the restitution of its properties. For the Orthodox Dr. Frank Sysyn is the director of the Peter Jacyk Political factors have largely determined this struggle, Church, issues were more complex, in particular Center for Ukrainian Historical Research at the above all the failure to establish an independent because the bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and editor-in- Ukrainian state in 1917-1920. chief of the Hrushevsky Translation Project. In Church affairs, the crucial moment arrived in 1921, (Continued on page 16) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1998 No. 29 Well-wishers greet Cardinal Lubachivsky Two hierarchs agree to serve on the occasion of his 84th birthday as spiritual advisors to foundation GLEN ROCK, N.J. – Archbishop The program works closely with other Press Service of the Patriarchal Curia UGCC] is coming into itself and realizing Antony of the Eastern Eparchy of the philanthropic organizations, such as of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church its potential as foreseen by your predeces- Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Bishop Rotary International’s Northern New sors, the Servant of God Metropolitan Michael Wiwchar CSsR, pastor of the Jersey District, which arranges for host LVIV – Cardinal Myroslav Ivan Andrey and Patriarch Josyf. Chicago-based St. Nicholas Eparchy of families and the operation itself. Lubachivsky, primate of the Ukrainian “You worthily fulfill your duties and, the Ukrainian Catholic Church, have To date, 16 children ranging in age Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC) cele- with the humbleness and patience, which shown their support for the efforts of from 15 months to 13 have come to brated his 84th birthday on June 24. His the Lord now grants you, you have Ukrainian Gift of Life Inc. by agreeing to America for surgery at Montefiore day began with the celebration of the become an example for us all that great become spiritual advisors to the organi- Hospital in the Bronx. divine liturgy in his chapel with his aux- accomplishments require great sacrifice zation. The expanding role of Ukrainian Gift iliary Bishop, Lubomyr Husar, and the and adversity. George Kuzma, president of the non- of Life Inc. includes funding the printing chancellor of the Patriarchal Curia, the “[We] thank Your Beatitude for this profit foundation that is dedicated to pro- of a diagnostic textbook to be distributed Rev. Michael, concelebrating. good example...” viding the opportunity for life-saving to doctors in the 25 regional hospitals Throughout the day guests and well- heart surgery for children in Ukraine, throughout Ukraine and supporting other wishers stepped in to bring him greetings made the announcment. technological advancements so that these and various gifts. Among them was Sheptytsky museum Bishop Wiwchar, the national spiritual surgeries can eventually be done in Archbishop Antonio Franco, the Vatican’s director for promotion of prayer for can- Ukraine. papal nuncio to Ukraine, who had flown in onization of Metropolitan Andrey During the past year it has become from Kyiv the previous night to attend the to be built in Prylbychi Sheptytsky, is currently a member of the increasingly evident to the trustees of the celebration. He presented the cardinal with Aid to Eastern Europe Committee of the organization that the healing process a cake he had brought from Kyiv and Press Service of the Patriarchal Curia National Council of Catholic Bishops. includes responding to the spiritual needs greetings on his own behalf as well as from of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church Archbishop Antony, who has support- of the child and mother. To meet that Pope John Paul II and the Vatican secretary ed the development and stabilization of need, arrangements are made to ensure of state, Cardinal Angelo Sodano. LVIV – The acting protosyncellus of the newly reborn Ukrainian Orthodox worship in the Ukrainian language and to Telegrams, cards, letters and massive the Archeparchy of Lviv, the Rev. Church in Ukraine, has spiritual and encourage hospital visitations from bouquets of flowers were brought to Yaroslav Chukhnii, has directed all the material oversight over the 45 parishes Ukrainian priests and deacons. Archbishop Major Lubachivsky who deans to have their clergy announce a that comprise the Eastern Eparchy. Both Bishop Wiwchar and Archbishop graciously accepted them all, making special collection for the erection of a Archbishop Antony and Bishop Antony have expressed desire to take an comments with his trademark wry sense new church and museum in honor of the Michael bring with them the ability for active part in the direction of the organi- of humor. Other greetings, coming from late Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky in the Ukrainian Gift of Life foundation to zation. Welcoming their participation Mr. Rome, Australia and Germany, included his home village of Prylbychi. Kuzma said, “These two vibrant spiritual continue to successfully meet its program messages from the Council of Episcopal The original church is now in the goals of identifying children in Ukraine leaders of our Ukrainian Churches add Conferences of Europe and various possession of one of the Ukrainian with congenital heart disease for poten- the vision and support necessary to more Greek-Catholic and Roman Catholic Orthodox jurisdictions. The local tial life-saving surgery in the United fully serve the needs of our Ukrainian bishops from around Ukraine. States. Through fund-raising and a net- children.” Orthodox authorities refuse not only to The representative of the Ukrainian return the church to the Greek-Catholic work of volunteers, it provides air trans- Tax-deductible contributions may be Greek-Catholic Church for external community, but will not even permit a portation for mother and child, as well as sent to: Ukrainian Gift of Life Inc., Suite affairs, Msgr. Dr. Iwan Dacko, sent a translation services at key times in the 333, 233 Rock Road, Glen Rock, NJ greeting from Bavaria. He wrote: sharing of the premises for religious medical process. 07451. “... By the will of God, Your Beatitude services. Thus, the decision was made a became the head of the Ukrainian Greek- year ago to simply build a new church Catholic Church at the time when Ukraine building in the village for the Greek- became sovereign and freedom was Catholic community. The actual process restored to our Church. You lead this was initiated with the blessing of the OBITUARY: Claudia Olesnicki, 92, Church at a turning point in time when [the cornerstone on December 14, 1997. leading member of the UNWLA ST. LOUIS – Claudia Nadia Olesnicki, women’s journal Our Life (Nashe Architect of Vatican’s policy a leading member of the Ukrainian Zhyttia) published by the UNWLA. National Women’s League of America During the 1940s and ‘50s, Mrs. (UNWLA), died on July 2 in St. Louis at Olesnicki’s commentaries were published toward Communist East dies the age of 92. She was born May 20, 1906, in the Svoboda daily newspaper. in Luka Mala, Ukraine, daughter of the She earned a Master of Social Work by Jan de Weydenthal In December 1990 Cardinal Casaroli Rev. Andrij and Leontyna (Petrasewycz) degree from Hunter College in 1959, and RFE/RL Newsline resigned as the Vatican’s secretary of state. Hawryszczak. was a social worker with the Children’s Cardinal Casaroli was universally She had been a member of Ukrainian Aid Society and the New York City ROME – Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, acknowledged as a consummate diplomat National Association Branch 19, of which Bureau of Child Guidance. who was widely considered an architect of and skillful negotiator who was absolute- her late husband, attorney Roman Mrs. Olesnicki was predeceased by the Holy See’s policy of rapprochement ly loyal to the Church. His role was with the Communist East, died during the Olesnicki, was president. two of her sisters, Irene Koltuniuk and essentially that of a facilitator – expand- week of June 7 in Rome. He was 83. Mrs. Olesnicki studied law in Krakow Oksana Rak. Survivors include her ing the Church’s work in the ideological- In a commemorative message to the and was particularly drawn to women’s daughter, Anne Larsen of Brooklyn; son, ly hostile Communist environment, while College of Cardinals, Pope John Paul II legal issues early in her professional career. Mark of O’Phallon, Mo.; sister, Marta negotiating a place for the Church under said that Cardinal Casaroli was “a pas- She became concerned with conditions Jarosz; six grandchildren and seven those difficult conditions. sionate builder of peaceful relations confronting Ukrainian women in America great-grandsons. The election of Pope John Paul result- between individuals and nations and, by from the time of her arrival in the United Funeral arrangements have been com- ed in major changes to that approach. employing the utmost diplomatic sensi- States in 1936, and headed UNWLA pleted in Missouri. Memorial services on This became particularly noticeable dur- tivity, made brave and significant steps, Branch 1 in the early 1940s. From 1944 the 40th day following her death will be ing the papal visit to Poland in 1979. especially in improving the situation of to 1946 she was the founding editor of the held in New York and New Jersey. The impact of the visit on Poland was the Church in Eastern Europe.” dramatic, undermining the authority of

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Sisters who fled war-torn Bosnia Young UNA’ers look forward to new life in U.S.

Dylan M. Roberts and Stephanie M. Oksana and Tatjana Bobrek Carly Anne Prowe, 3, daughter of Roberts, children of Nancy M. and Donna and Mark A. Prowe, is a new Glen Roberts, are new members of KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Sisters years of nursing college and improved member of the UNA. She was enrolled UNA Branch 267 in Westbury, N.Y. Oksana and Tatjana Bobrek, formerly of their knowledge of the Ukrainian lan- by her grandparents George and They were enrolled by their mother. Potocani (near Banja Luka), Bosnia, guage. Once they were in Ukraine, how- Katherine Prowe, who is the secretary The secretary of the branch, Gloria became members of the Ukrainian ever, they had great difficulty obtaining of Branch 26 in Toms River, N.J. Tolopka, is their grandaunt. National Association soon after their refugee visas in order to be reunited first steps on American soil. They say with relatives in the United States. they have been blessed by the realization Their uncle Peter Bobrek of of a dream they thought would never Tennessee filed all the necessary papers come true. to sponsor the girls. Oksana and Tatjana Soon after the war began in Bosnia, appealed to the International Rescue the sisters, then still teenagers, escaped Committee, which ultimately came to an to Lviv (Tatjana in 1992 and Oksana in agreement with the U.S. Immigration 1994) and were granted the status of refugees. There they completed two (Continued on page 12)

Jennifer M. Bilyk, seen above at the Matthew Alexander Handzy, son of SUMMER PROGRAMS 1998 age of 3 months, is the daughter of Damian and Renata Handzy, is a new Saturday, July 25 George and Sharan Bilyk. The new member of UNA Branch 88 in ~8:30 p.m. CONCERT – Songs of Ukraine member of UNA Branch 170 in Jersey Kerhonkson, N.Y. He was enrolled by TARAS PETRYNENKO, TETIANA HOROBETS, ANDRIY SOLODENKO City, N.J., was enrolled by her grand his grandparents Dr. Jerry and Lesia 10:00 p.m. DANCE – music provided by ZOREPAD parents Wolodymyr and Halyna Bilyk. Handzy. Saturday, August 1 ~8:30 p.m. CONCERT – UKRAINIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC 10:00 p.m. DANCE – music provided by FATA MORGANA

Saturday, August 8 ~8:30 p.m. CONCERT – Ensemble KAZKA 10:00 p.m. DANCE – music provided by LUNA

Saturday, August 15 ~8:30 p.m. CONCERT – Soprano LUBA SCHYBCHYK 10:00 p.m. DANCE – music provided by ZOLOTA BULAVA 11:45 p.m. Crowning of “MISS SOYUZIVKA 1999”

Sunday, August 16 UNWLA DAY

Saturday, August 22 UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS ~8:30 p.m. CONCERT – SOYUZIVKA DANCE WORKSHOP RECITAL Director: ROMA PRYMA BOHACHEVSKY 10:00 p.m. DANCE – music provided by BURYA

Saturday, August 29 ~8:30 p.m. CONCERT – Violist HALYNA KOLESSA; Pianist OKSANA RAWLIUK PROTENIC Victoria E. and Ronald McCarthy, 10:00 p.m. DANCE – music provided by VIDLUNNIA children of Annastasia and Kevin Paul Matthew Bylen, son of Peter and McCarthy of Wawarsing, N.Y., are Lillian Bylen of Westchester, Ill., is a LABOR DAY WEEKEND CELEBRATIONS new members of UNA Branch 88. They new member of UNA Branch 17. He CONCERTS, DANCES, EXHIBITS, TENNIS TOURNAMENT, SWIMMING COMPETITION were enrolled by their grandparents was enrolled by his father, who is (Details TBA) Victor and Eva Nowicki. branch secretary. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1998 No. 29

DISCUSSION PAPER THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Rada’s new chairman The Ukrainian Canadian community

After a two-month election marathon, Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada finally has a on the eve of the new millennium chairman. He is Oleksander Tkachenko, the 59-year-old head of the Peasant Party, which is aligned with Socialist Oleksander Moroz’s Left-Center faction in the by John Boyd they could be together “with their own,” speak their own language, read (or have Verkhovna Rada. Mr. Tkachenko is the new leader of the Parliament, a person who PART I will guide the daily plenary sessions and formulate the agenda, a person whose views read to them) the works of Taras and beliefs should make an impression on the 450-member Parliament and guide it in Prior to and during the 1991 centennial Shevchenko, Ivan Franko and other developing legislation that will finally bring economic and social reform to this long- of Ukrainian immigration in Canada, Ukrainian writers, and generally socialize, suffering country. much was written about the history of the relax after their days of hard labor and So what kind of leader is the new chairman? Ukrainian Canadian community in articles, have fun. They organized choirs and He can’t be called a leader by the example he sets. An organization he heads, the memoranda and books. Not very much drama groups. They subscribed to papers Land and People Agro-Industrial Association, owes the government $75 million for a attention, however, has been given to how from the old country to find out what was loan from Citicorp on which the association reneged and which the government of assimilation has affected the community happening “back home” and later founded Ukraine as the guarantor of the loan had to repay. Land and People was ordered to pay over the years, especially in the latter part their own Ukrainian newspapers and pub- back the money (which was used to buy U.S. corn seed that turned out to be useless, of this century, and what that portends for lished their own books. along with foreign automobiles and industrial equipment) to the government after an it in the new millennium. Speakers at meetings, concerts and ban- investigation by the Procurator General’s Office found the association liable. All the ethnic groups that came to quets informed their audiences, and the In the last Verkhovna Rada convocation, as the first vice-chairman he was the silent Canada after the French, English, Scottish newspapers informed their readers, about member of the Presidium, rarely heard from except when he chaired the proceedings in and Irish, have been subjected to the what was happening in the Ukrainian com- the absence of Chairman Moroz. So he does not lead by his words. assimilation process. That process has munity, as well as in Canada and the However, when he does speak, what comes out can startle. During his first nomina- taken on different forms at different times. world. tion to the chairmanship, which failed, he responded to a question on the repayment of For the first wave of Ukrainian immi- They also set up a network of Ukrainian the money he owes the government by calling the national deputy who asked the ques- grants, who came to Canada between 1891 children’s schools, where their offspring tion “a representative of the CIA.” That national deputy happened to be Roman and the start of World War I, that process were taught how to read and write Zvarych, newly elected to the Verkhovna Rada from the Rukh faction, who gave up was anything but normal or tranquil. From Ukrainian and were introduced to his U.S. citizenship in 1995 to become a Ukrainian citizen. And the statement was the very start they were the victims of big- Ukrainian music, songs and folk dances, made from the podium of the Verkhovna Rada session hall before national deputies, otry, prejudice and outright discrimination and in some cases Ukrainian literature and the press and a national radio audience. Mr. Zvarych has denied the charges and filed a by a substantial part of the Canadian popu- history. At weddings and banquets children 150 million hrv ($75 million) slander suit against Mr. Tkachenko. lation. joined with their parents in singing the tra- As the newspaper Den stated on July 8, one day after Mr. Tkachenko’s election, There was a period, too, just prior to the ditional songs. “He is to a great extent a compromise choice. He is not altogether a leftist, but also not war, when government officials, educators Continuation of prejudice a centrist, and he is not a leader – that is certain.” and church leaders sought to impose a pol- The election of Mr. Tkachenko gives his colleague in the Verkhovna Rada, former icy of forced assimilation and Although the earlier policy of Chairman Moroz, a puppet to carry out the agenda he had planned, after Mr. Moroz’s Canadianization on them, and during the “Canadianization” was eventually aban- attempt to re-take the chairmanship for himself was blocked by Rukh and the National war thousands of them were wrongly doned, the bigotry, prejudice and discrimi- Democrats. The two factions approached the elections of the chairman with the view interned as “enemy aliens.” The new nation, both within the government that anybody was better than Mr. Moroz. immigrants resisted and fought back bureaucracy and among the general public, Rukh and the National Democrats worked closely with President Leonid Kuchma, against these policies, unfortunately with continued throughout the 1920s and who some say made every effort to block the election of Mr. Moroz because that little success. 1930s; though more subtle in form they would have given the former chairman a soapbox, almost literally, from which he All of these experiences have been well were even more intensive and pervasive. could have begun his presidential campaign. documented and recorded by writers This had a particularly negative effect in Mr. Tkachenko, like Mr. Moroz before him, strongly opposes the private sale of among those early immigrants, as well as those earlier decades on the first genera- land, distrusts the International Monetary Fund and believes that the powers of the by later historians. tion of the Canadian-born. Although the Office of the President must be curtailed and those of the Verkhovna Rada expanded While the new immigrants tried from immigrant parents resented the prejudice — a general blueprint for maintaining the status quo, which would leave Ukraine as it the very beginning to adapt to life in the and discrimination they encountered, most is today, neither Soviet nor inclined towards the West. new land, they also sought ways to resist of them “learned to live with it,” to accept So, Ukraine – which needs fresh, dynamic blood and new approaches to its myriad assimilation and counteract the discrimina- it reluctantly as “their lot in life” in this economic and social problems – now has a Parliament chairman, generally agreed to tion. Very soon after their arrival they country. be the third most important political post after the president and the prime minister, founded churches and reading clubs where Their Canadian-born children, however, who was chosen after 20 rounds and some 90 other candidates failed. The new chair- did not. After all, they went to the same man is a not very eloquent man who has a history of controversial financial schemes schools as the other children, learned the John Boyd is a resident of Toronto. and who, to a large extent, may simply execute the political wishes and agenda of a English language, and many even excelled His surname was Boychuk, but, as he man who wanted to use the same post as a springboard to higher office. in their studies. But they were made to feel notes in his paper, he changed it in 1933, at And for this Ukraine’s citizens waited two months? uncomfortable with their “foreign” names, the age of 20, to Boyd. In his earlier years, and the customs and lifestyles of their par- he was a Communist and an active mem- ents. Therefore, they were not fully accept- ber in Ukrainian pro-Communist organiza- ed in society. They were made to feel like July tions – most of those years as an editor. second-class citizens, much as the children He left the Communist Party in 1968, of visible minorities are often made to feel TTurningurning the pagespages back... back... immediately after the Soviet armed forces today. For many it left a mark that lasted invaded Czecho-Slovakia, where he lived for the rest of their lives. 22 briefly at the time as a correspondent. For [Author’s Note: I am of that generation. him, he explains, this was the last straw I was born in Edmonton on January 26, 1898 Osyp Krilyk Vasylkiv was a fascinating figure of the western after a long period of disappointment and 1913. My maternal grandfather, Todor Ukrainian Communist world. He was born on July 22, 1898, in disillusionment in the policies and prac- Popowich, came to Canada in 1900, when Krakovets, Yavoriv county, about 40 miles west of Lviv. tices of the Soviet regime and the my mother was 6 years old. He settled on a Communist movement. He adds that he While a law student at Lviv University, he founded and led one of the “dra- 160-acre homestead, near what is now the finally realized (somewhat late, he admits) homanivky” (named after Mykola Drahomanov) or International Revolutionary Social town of Willingdon, and lived there all his that “these were an utter distortion and Democracy groups that were springing up in Galicia, and joined the Ukrainian Galician life. My father, Ivan Boychuk, came in betrayal of the ideals of a just and compas- Army. Interned in Czecho-Slovakia in 1920, he began to organize Communist circles 1908 at the age of 23; he worked for the sionate world to which I had naively dedi- in the camps and established the Committee to Aid the Revolutionary Movement in first four years as a coal-miner in Hosmer, cated myself in my youth.” Eastern Galicia (based in Prague) and the Foreign Committee of the Communist Party British Columbia.] A few years later, in the early 1970s, he of Eastern Galicia (based in Vienna). It was during those earlier decades that became persona non grata with the leaders Late in 1920 he returned to Lviv to head the party’s Central Committee and to many Canadians of Ukrainian origin of the left-wing Ukrainian organizations organize partisan opposition to the Polish occupation of Galicia. In 1921 he was tarred changed their names; some for business or for critical remarks he made about them. within the Communist movement as a “secessionist” for advocating the independence professional reasons, but most of them He has not been a member of these organi- of the Communist Party of Eastern Galicia from Poland’s Communist Workers’ Party hoped it would be easier to find a job. zations since, but he did agree, at the per- (KPRP). [Author’s note: I changed mine in 1933, sonal request of Peter Krawchuk, to edit In the fall of 1921 he was arrested together with 39 others by the Pilsudski govern- at the age of 20.] the latter’s book, “Our History: The ment and brought up on charges of treason. The trial, which became known as the St. Thus a Vasyl Andrusyshyn became Bill Ukrainian Labour-Farmer Movement George Trial, lasted for 14 months, and Vasylkiv was one of the few to admit any ties Andrews, or an Ivan Chorney took the 1907-1991.” to the Communist Party. Given a sentence of three years in jail, he did not serve any name John Black, while some went for a Now, in what he calls his “vintage time and was released on bail. total change, and so a Stepan Zradowsky years” (he is 85), he is very concerned that In 1923, the Communist Party of Eastern Galicia was renamed the Communist Party became Steve Hill, a Mykhailo Pesklyvec young people of Ukrainian origin are rap- of Western Ukraine and Vasylkiv became secretary of its Central Committee and a became James Larkin, and so on. Young idly losing touch with their cultural her- member of the Central Committee of the Communist Workers’ Party of Poland, despite women of Ukrainian origin who married itage. That prompted him to produce this strong opposition from Moscow’s man in the area, Volodymyr Zatonsky. husbands with names that sounded less paper, in the hope that it will stimulate (Continued on page 12) some discussion on the subject. (Continued on page 18) No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1998 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Ukraine. (In a recent interview broadcast TheThe thingsthings wewe do...do... We should demand on Kontakt, Patriarch Dymytri claims to have backed away from declared intentions by Orysia Paszczak Tracz real recognition – Ed.] Within the past few weeks, more Dear Editor: than a dozen parishes in the diaspora (four from the U.S.) were formally accepted into As evidenced by the many letters pub- the jurisdiction of the UOC-KP. Now the Mama’s war: echoes from the past lished in The Weekly, the “recognition” parishes that want spiritual communion of the UOC-U.S.A. by the patriarch of with Kyiv have an option. The article below was written in 1986 Russian and now German rule. Constantinople and subsequent events The parishes that left the jurisdiction and won third place in the Winnipeg Free Soon, in the confusion of war, a have caused great concern to many indi- of Bound Brook did so with reluctance, Press/Canadian Author’s Association Ukrainian underground began operating viduals and parishes. In reality this was but did so because their concerns, objec- Non-Fiction Writing Competition that among these forced exiles. They served not a recognition, but a subordination, tions, and questions were criticized, year. It was published in a slightly differ- as agents, couriers and forgers. False which effectively made the UOC-U.S.A. unanswered and ignored. How many ent format in “Echoes from Ukrainian documents were needed to provide them a metropolia or diocese of the other parishes will leave? Are we des- Canada,” a special issue of the with new identities to facilitate travel Ecumenical Patriarchate. Bound Brook tined to have two Churches in the U.S., Canadian literary journal Prairie Fire, throughout the expanding Nazi-occupied sold this “recognition” by stating that in one under the ecumenical patriarch and (Vol. 13, No. 3, Autumn 1992). territory. return it has achieved what the late the other an independent “unrecognized” Sofia Mazepa Paszczak died peaceful- Mama traveled from Germany to Patriarch Mstyslav always wanted: Church under a Ukrainian primate? ly and painlessly on June 9, 1997. In her Ukraine (by then a German colony) with recognition. This claim was and is a If this sounds familiar, it should last year she was no longer as described her new papers. She was petite, beautiful, gross falsehood. The late patriarch want- because this is precisely the situation we in this article, but in her version of reali- blue-eyed and blonde. By that time she ed recognition of an independent UOC, had for decades, except Bound Brook was ty was happy and at peace. This was read had learned German so well that the or UAOC to be precise. He had many the independent “unrecognized” Church. by the author, her daughter, at the natives were sure she was German, but opportunities to accept the jurisdiction of This “unrecognized” Church had the most panakhyda (memorial service). just couldn’t tell from which province. On a few occasions she was almost caught. the ecumenical patriarch (and others) and parishes, the most clergy, and the greatest As I kiss my sleeping children at refused them all. number of faithful. It built the Memorial Once the military border had changed night, my thoughts involuntarily flash overnight, and she had the wrong pass. To further underscore the vast differ- Church, opened a seminary, museum, etc. back 40-some years to another mother ence between recognition and subordina- For decades this “unrecognized” church Being found out could have meant execu- and child an ocean away. Could I have tion on the spot. The officer questioned her tion, note that there are many recognized nurtured the Ukrainian Orthodox spirit done as well had I been in her place? Orthodox Churches in the diaspora: and tradition not only in the U.S. but for sharply, but she pleaded ignorance: “I Would I have survived the war? I cannot thought this was ALL Germany now, and Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Romanian, the entire diaspora. And in its hallowed answer. But over the years, as I watch my etc. None of these are under the jurisdic- ground lie thousands of Ukraine’s faithful borders don’t matter anymore.” With that own children grow, so grows my admira- she even got a ride across the border tion of the ecumenical patriarch. In fact, sons and daughters, including its first tion for my mother. She did survive, pay- even the Greek Orthodox Church in “unrecognized” Patriarch. bridge. Mama could have had it easy by ing a great price for that survival. Only accepting one of the many officers’ propo- Greece is not under his jurisdiction. All The healing and noble option is for now the 50-year-old war is claiming one of the aforementioned Churches are the hierarchs of the UOC-U.S.A. to sitions. But that would have meant dis- of its final victims, and chalking up one grace, to herself, her family and her nation. either autochephalous (totally independ- admit that they were sold a bill of goods, of its final victories. ent) or under the jurisdiction of the to demand real recognition, to leave the One vivid recollection of a trip home When I was a child I listened to my to her village was of the gallows in the Church in their native land. Only the jurisdiction of the foreign Church, and to parents and their friends reminisce about Ukrainians and the Carpatho-Rusyns enter into spiritual communion with our square, with resisters and members of the the war years. In the early 1950s the new underground (including a friend) left have achieved “recognition” by accept- mother Church in Kyiv. This would pre- immigrants, the DPs, visited each other hanging for days by the Gestapo as an ing a foreign jurisdiction. vent a major split in the UOC-U.S.A. often, clinging together for security and example to others. Mama did spend some Compounding the “recognition” reali- and would allow Ukrainian Americans to companionship in a new land. Playing time in a labor camp of some kind, and ty, Protocol 937 came to light, the Odesa worship with their brothers and sisters in nearby, I absorbed the stories. They did once, only once, mentioned seeing the meeting between Patriarchs Alexei and Ukraine. In addition, it would ensure that not seem that strange to me; each was dogs chase escapees into the woods. Bartholomew, and it became painfully Bound Brook remains the symbol of equally weird and scary. I don’t mean to think of Mama’s past, obvious that in spite of our “recognition” Ukrainian Orthodox spirit and tradition To someone who did not live through but certain things I see or hear immedi- Moscow was still viewed as the only in the diaspora. it, the adventures of ordinary people dur- ately remind me of her wartime experi- canonical jurisdiction in Ukraine. In fact, The other options are simply too trag- ing World War II may seem invented. ences. In the country, whenever I notice a when individuals directly objected to the ic for our Church and community. After the premiere of “The Great railroad track, in my mind’s eye I see a ecumenical patriarch, they were informed Simon T. Nahnybida Escape” in 1963, the film critic of The young woman bending down in the pitch that Patriarch Alexei is “Ukraine’s friend” Basking Ridge, N.J. New York Times wrote that the writers dark to feel the surface of the steel – is that “he is not responsible for history,” must have made up the story, because it the rail smooth or corroded, used or and that until we learn to love our ene- was just too incredible. The newspaper abandoned? She needed to know, mies we do not deserve an independent was deluged with letters from furious because she was in Bavaria on her way to church. About alliances veterans who had lived through it all and steal her brother out of a stone prison Bound Brook’s response (not official- had even stranger stories to tell. Many carved into the Alps. He had been impris- ly, but via the Rev. John Nakonachny) and political realities times I heard my mother sigh that if she oned because of his nationalist anti-Nazi has been: everything is a lie; Bound Dear Editor: had stopped to think of the consequences activities; he was one of many. Brook supports our Church in Ukraine; of her actions, she would have been dead Many letters have been published in Mama planned this escape in advance, who’s paying attention to Protocol 967 many times over. even writing to her mother back home on anyway?; trust your hierarchs; the indi- The Ukrainian Weekly concerning the When Nazi tanks poured into western alliances of the Kyivan Churches. I am a postcard that she would be getting “X” viduals voicing concerns are troublemak- Ukraine, then under Polish rule, my out of prison. She knew that letters were ers and friends of Moscow; Bound sure some grumble, “much ado about mother was 17 years old. When Soviet nothing.” On the contrary, these non-polit- censored, postcards were not. By train, at Brook is not responsible for what occurs Russian forces began advancing some- night, she reached the town. There she in Ukraine; etc. ical alliances focus our perspective on time later, the fear of them was so great political realities. even asked passers-by where the caves Perhaps Bound Brook did not official- that my mother decided to leave home were located. They told her, and reas- ly respond to the voiced questions and What homage must we (Ukrainians) and head west. After what Stalin had continue to pay for “legitimacy” from the sured her that “du bist deutsch, du findest objections because it was confident that done to Ukraine in the previous decades, alles” – you are German, you’ll find the concerned individuals and parishes three hierarchs of the old empires: Rome, the Nazis seemed the lesser (and still Constantinople and Moscow? Each of our everything. My details are sketchy, but could not do much. Where could they unknown) of two evils. Even though she Mama gained entry, slipping in via the go? Also, it knew that planned changes Churches’ alliances must be scrutinized went willingly, she joined the over 2 mil- for their costs and ramifications. rivulet running through the center of the to the Church Constitution would further lion young Ukrainians who had been cor- stone floor and hiding under a bunk. She incapacitate the faithful, for these Prolonged alliances with, and loyalty ralled in village and city markets and to, centers of old empires bring forth a even remembered she was irritated that changes moved the UOC-U.S.A. towards herded onto cattle cars for Germany. her coat got dirty. a synodal Church structure. variety of questions for which our These were the Ostarbeiter, the eastern Ukrainian community in America has Because of the remoteness of the area, However, recent developments in laborers, the forced slave labor of security was lax. Mama got her brother Ukraine have placed the UOC-U.S.A. in The Ukrainian Weekly to moderate dis- German factories, mines and farms. course on these topics and to serve as a and his compatriots out, and had false a precarious situation. Specifically two Along with workers from other occupied papers and some clothes ready for them as major events have occurred: 1) two out forum to question, analyze and discern. lands, they freed the Aryan race for more Thank you, Ukrainian Weekly. they dispersed into the night. My uncle of the three major jurisdictions of the important service to the fatherland. had to travel back with Mama, because he Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Ukraine Michael Jula Mama was placed on a farm. She was knew no German at all. On the train, full have signed a proclamation stating their Carnegie, Pa. lucky. Factories and railroads got of military personnel, he placed his head intent to unite, and 2) the UOC-KP has bombed – farms didn’t. That’s where she in Mama’s lap, and she covered his fore- changed its previous stance and has start- met my father, an Ostarbeiter in a dairy. The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters head with a scarf. They were a couple and ed to accept parishes from the diaspora to the editor. Letters should be typed (dou- At first their life wasn’t so bad; there was he had a terrible headache, so Mama under its jurisdiction. ble-spaced) and signed; they must be origi- plenty to eat and they were in a relatively spoke for both of them when necessary. In April of this year Patriarch Dimitri nals, not photocopies. safe area. But it was not home. My future The few times Mama told me this story (UOAC) and Patriarch Filaret (UOC-KP) The daytime phone number and address parents were idealistic, as were most of she ended it by shaking her head: “It was formally declared their intention to create of the letter-writer must be given for verifi- the other Ukrainian forced laborers. They one Ukrainian Orthodox Church in cation purposes. wanted a free Ukraine, free from Polish, (Continued on page 17) 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1998 No. 29 Ambassador Pifer speaks on recent developments in Ukraine Statistics show by Yaro Bihun Special to The Ukrainian Weekly serious problems WASHINGTON – Ukraine has to bite the bullet on economic reform or face the possibility of a financial crisis within the for small businesses next year, losing up to $6 billion in potential low-interest inter- Eastern Economist national credits and defaulting on its ballooning domestic and foreign financial obligations. KYIV – Three different sets of statis- U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Stephen Pifer balanced these tics released on June 30 paint a bleak words of caution with an expectation that President Leonid picture for Ukrainian entrepreneurs. Kuchma’s recent decrees dealing with the economy is an indi- Speaking on behalf of members of the cation that his government realizes this precarious situation and Ukrainian Union of Small and Medium- is finally willing to act on it. sized Businesses, President Vasyl Ambassador Pifer discussed recent developments in Ukraine Kostytskyi said that 4,000 entrepreneurs at a Friday Evening Forum on June 26 sponsored by The in Ukraine are forced into at least some Washington Group (TWG), an association of Ukrainian illegal activities. The current tax system, American professionals, and the International Research and he argued, effectively imposes a 75-90 Exchanges Board (IREX), a non-profit organization that fosters percent tax rate on businesses, “prevent- academic exchanges with the new independent countries in ing them from operating normally and Eastern Europe. properly paying taxes.” Before an audience of TWG members and representatives of He also spoke in support of some of institutions involved in U.S.-Ukrainian relations, Ambassador the economic decrees recently signed by Pifer focused on what he saw as the three major challenges fac- President Leonid Kuchma, including one ing Ukraine: the restructuring of its economy, its political sys- that simplifies procedures governing the tem and foreign relations. He also answered questions on relat- registration of enterprises. Mr. ed issues, including the reportedly high refusal rate for Kostytskyi added that the Cabinet of Ukrainian visa applicants in Kyiv. Ministers is preparing decrees to regulate The U.S. ambassador said that Ukraine’s greatest challenge Yaro Bihun tax officials, an idea which also has the today is its economy. If there were to be another Asian and support of the UUSMB. Russian financial crisis, he said, Ukraine would find itself in a Ambassador Stephen Pifer addresses a Friday Evening Meanwhile, according to a study con- position of not being able to borrow any money internationally Forum hosted by The Washington Group. ducted by the Ukrainian Foundation for or sell hardly any of its treasury bills domestically. At the same New Economy, 41percent of heads of “So there is a lot of money at stake here,” noted the ambassa- time, it would have to keep redeeming its high-interest monthly large- and small-scale privatized enter- dor “and it comes at far cheaper rates than Ukraine now is hav- treasury bills and service its foreign debt. prises say they are having serious prob- ing to pay either for domestic T-bills or for Eurobonds.” For Ukraine the best way out of this situation is through lems operating in Ukraine’s marketplace. Progress in the economic area will depend in large measure the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) credit program offered by According to the questionnaire, which on how the relationship between the executive and legislative the International Monetary Fund, which insists on reducing was answered by 441 enterprise directors branches of government develops, he said. Unfortunately, this government expenditures and deficit spending and increasing in 25 oblast centers, 79 percent of revenues. This would lessen Ukraine’s dependency on its already is complicated by posturings for next year’s presidential respondents feel that the business envi- costly domestic T-bills that pay 45 to 50 percent on an annual elections, as is evident from the inability of the Verkhovna Rada ronment is unfavorable. basis. to elect a chairman from among the potential presidential candi- A similar number – 73 percent – “You can’t maintain that for long before you run into a situa- dates vying to head the Rada. believe that having personal connections tion where virtually all revenues are going to be consumed by Ambassador Pifer said that Ukraine has done a good job over is the best strategy for defending one’s treasury bill redemption and servicing the foreign debt,” Mr. the past year and a half in building its relationships with its interests before central and local govern- Pifer said. “So there is a very fragile situation now, and it needs neighbors, including Russia, and with the West, and especially ment representatives. The state’s privati- to be addressed.” over the last half year with the United States. zation program – which allows citizens Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright’s visit to Kyiv in The investment climate to exchange privatization certificates for March resolved “the single biggest political dispute” in the shares in enterprises – was characterized Another important problem facing Ukraine is its investment bilateral relationship, over the issue of nuclear cooperation with as a failure by 63 percent of respondents. climate, he said. “And, unfortunately, it’s a very poor image,” what the United States sees as pariah states, including Iran, he Finally, the Ministry of the Economy he said, pointing to the latest Harvard Institute for International said, and this enabled the signing of a bilateral Peaceful Nuclear reported that the number of JVs operat- Development survey of 53 emerging world economies which Cooperation Agreement and increased cooperation in space, ing in Ukraine has shrunk by 212 compa- lists Ukraine in last place. including an expanded role for Ukraine in the commercial satel- nies in 1998. About 3,500 joint ventures “And it is scaring investors off,” he added. Ukraine has about lite launch market, he said. are operating in Ukraine. Ministry $2 billion of foreign investment – “a paltry sum,” the ambassa- The issue of visas experts confirm that there are 133,000 dor pointed out, for an economy the size of Ukraine, when, by functioning small businesses in the coun- comparison, neighboring Poland expects to get $10 billion in Asked why the refusal rate for Ukrainians seeking visas to try, although the number of registered foreign investment this year alone. visit the United States is higher than for citizens of other coun- small business companies is 2.5 times Ukraine must work to eliminate excessive regulation, ration- tries in that region, Ambassador Pifer said he did not have sta- larger. Small and medium-sized compa- alize its tax systems, find a way to enforce contracts in order to tistics comparing his Embassy’s refusal rate with other consular nies employ 1.2 million Ukrainians. win over foreign as well as Ukrainian investors and business- posts in the region. The only comparison he could point to was There are about 900,000 one-man busi- men, he added. to the refusal rate for Ukrainian visa applicants at the U.S. nesses in Ukraine. “It’s very clear that President Kuchma wants foreign Embassy in Moscow which was four to five times higher than investment,” setting a target of $40 billion over the next eight to other applicants. years, Ambassador Pifer said. But for an American business- He added, however, that a few inspection teams had looked man in Ukraine, he added, “what counts is what the customs into this problem in Kyiv and that they and he have found the official says, what DerzhStandard says, what the tax auditor refusal rate “justified by the circumstances.” Ukraine pledges says. And right now, at the middle and lower levels, those He pointed out that the consular officers have the difficult people are telling foreign business: ‘You’re not welcome in task of working within the guidelines of a law “that is essential- to repay Gazprom Ukraine.’” ly ‘un-American,’ ” mandating the presumption – until proven RFE/RL Newsline The American ambassador said that on June 16 he was “fair- otherwise – that each visa applicant intends to break the condi- ly pessimistic” about which way Ukraine was headed because tions of the visa he requests. KYIV – First Vice Prime Minister even though there were statements about the government’s eco- There is a “very high fraud rate” in visa applicants from Anatolii Holubchenko has said Ukraine nomic reform plans in line with what would be needed to obtain Ukraine, he said, and the fraud is becoming “very sophisticat- will pay its debt to Gazprom for gas sup- the needed EFF credits from the IMF, the U.S. Embassy “did ed,” which has forced the Embassy to apply more scrutiny plies by the end of 1998, Ukrainian not see any dedicated push to bring that plan to fruition.” and, unfortunately, “raise the bar” for all applicants, he Television reported. explained. Mr. Holubchenko’s statement followed Reaction to Kuchma decrees Ambassador Pifer said that it’s much easier for a Ukrainian a meeting between Gazprom chief execu- The situation changed dramatically two days later, he added, to get a visa to Germany because Germany has a system of tive Rem Viakhirev and Ukrainian Prime when President Kuchma stated that he could not wait any internal registration and control for foreigner visitors and Minister Valerii Pustovoitenko in Kyiv on longer for the Verkhovna Rada to pass his economic initiatives workers. That kind of system does not exist in the United June 24. The two men discussed pay- and began issuing presidential decrees, among them one that States, which puts more pressure on the visa officer “to make ments for Russian gas supplied to Ukraine halved the 10 percent Chornobyl payroll tax. the right call.” last year and joint use of Ukrainian under- “We hope that what we’ve seen over the last eight days is a With no control system in place there is now way of knowing ground gas storage facilities. real signal that the government is committed and is going to how many visa holders overstay their visas or get a job in the Mr. Holubchenko added that Ukraine is push forward on this.” United States, Mr. Pifer said. The only indication of fraudulent interested in signing a long-term agree- This decision has had a favorable impact on the last IMF intent of visa holders can be deduced from the number of those ment on Russian gas transit through mission to Ukraine, he said. If the IMF approves the EFF who try to adjust their status while in the United States, “and Ukrainian territory. He said such an agree- credits, Ukraine would get more than $2 billion over the next there’s a fairly large number of those,” he added. ment would guarantee that Russia will not three years “at very, very easy terms,” and that, in turn, Ambassador Pifer was introduced to the audience at the build an alternate pipeline bypassing could get Ukraine another $4 billion in World Bank loans, he Friday Evening Forum by newly elected TWG President Orest Ukraine. Ukraine’s gas debt to Gazprom said. Deychakiwsky and IREX President Daniel C. Matuszewski. amounts to some $700 million. No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1998 9 July 4 celebrated American-style in Kyiv

KYIV – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine organized a Fourth of July picnic in Kyiv at the Spartak Stadium. Approximately 1,000 persons arrived to take part in the festivities, among them U.S. Ambassador Stephen Pifer and his wife, Marilyn (seen in the photo on the left). The event was open to the public, but most of the attendees were Americans, primarily expatriates, employees of the U.S. Embassy and Peace Corps volunteers. As seen in this photo report, the picnickers listened to a jazz performance by a Kyiv band; enjoyed a barbecue featuring good ol’ American hamburgers, hot dogs, baked beans, potato salad, etc.; and played volleyball and Frisbee. There were special treats for children, too, such as face-painting and myriad games. The party overflowed onto the streets of Kyiv as revelers dressed in red, white and blue waved American flags to passers-by. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1998 No. 29

Summer season – the 44th – opens at Soyuzivka KERHONKSON, N.Y. – Soyuzivka, the upstate New York resort of the Ukrainian National Association, officially opened its 44th summer season over the Independence Day weekend, July 3-5. Traditionally the weekend includes entertainment, dances and a tennis tournament, and this year’s Fourth of July was no different. Guests began arriving for the long holiday weekend at the resort already on Thursday evening, July 2. As seen in the photos here (counterclockwise, beginning with photo on left), it was a lovely summer weekend as young and old enjoyed Soyuzivka’s beautiful pools; Peter Iwasiwka, the assistant to our intrepid photographer, took some time off to enjoy a Q- Café hot dog and then to play with friends at the resort’s playground; and the Zacharczuk family from Worcester, Pa., (from left) Xenia, Sofia, Luka and Danylo, arrived for the sec- ond round of the incomparable “Tabir Ptashat,” the preschoolers’ day camp organized by the Plast sorority “Pershi Stezhi” and run with the active input of campers’ parents.

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The Saturday evening concert program featured the Dunai Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, seen above taking a bow during the performance in the Veselka auditorium. The Ontario troupe’s artistic director and choreographer is Orest Samitz. Also on the program was bandurist Julian Kytasty (right) of New York. After the concert and during the previous evening, guests enjoyed dancing to the music of Luna, Tempo and Burlaky. A special treat was the performance on Friday night of the Midnight Bigus band, which played into the wee hours of the morning to the delight of denizens of the Trembita lounge.

“Tabir Ptashat,” meanwhile, concluded its first week of activities with a birthday party celebrating the camp’s 10th anniver- sary. In the photo on the left, Borislaw the Clown (who speaks Ukrainian) entertained the 4- to 6-year-olds as camp director Marusia Borkowsky looked on. Above, the campers and counselors pose for a commemorative photo in their 1998 camp T- shirts. Below, Neonila Sochan, the “mother of Tabir Ptashat,” i.e., the founder and organizer of these Plast camps for preschoolers which have been held at Soyuzivka since 1988, receives a 10th anniversary gift from a troop of campers.

In a more serious vein, a group of young professionals who are former summer employees of the resort have resolved to save Soyuzivka. Setting up a table at the Veselka pavilion under a banner reading “It’s now or never... Help preserve Soyuzivka” (as seen in the center photo), the group urged resort guests to “invest in (Continued on page 12) 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1998 No. 29 Turning the pages... THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY (Continued from page 6) Vasylkiv’s faction, known as the Vasylkivtsi, advocated a national Communist plat- form and somewhat anarchistically questioned the need for common goals with other revolutionary groups throughout Poland. Support from the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine and leaders such as Mykola Skrypnyk and Oleksander Shumsky, as well as strong popular support in Volhynia, managed to keep the Vasylkivtsi, the majority faction, in a position of leadership until 1928. 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Plast hosts 285 youths at six camps

EAST CHATHAM, N.Y. – Camps of the Plast Ukrainian Youth Organization are currently taking place at several venues throughout the United States and Canada. One of the largest sites, the “Vovcha Tropa” (Wolf’s Path) campsite here in upstate New York is hosting six camps – and a total of 285 youths between the ages of 7 and 17 – during the month of July. Four educational/recreational youth camps are taking place at the 365-acre site nestled between the Four of the Plast camps currently being held at the “Vovcha Tropa” campsite in East Chatham, N.Y.: staffers and participants Catskill and Berkshire mountains. of the camp for “novachky” (girls age 7-11), ... The largest camp during the sum- mer of 1998, in terms of the number of participants and staff, is the one for girls age 7-11 (novachky). Called “Treasures of the Centuries” (Skarby Stolit), it comprises a camp command and staff of 15 and 71 campers. The camp director is Olia Redka Stasiuk. The camp for boys (novaky) is named “Wonders of the Sea” (Morski Dyva). A staff of 12, led by Nadia Redka Haywas, directs the program for 58 campers. “Protectors of Fire” (Berehyni Vohniu) is the name of the camp for older girls age 11 and up (yunachky). It has 11 members in its camp com- mand, led by Nusia Horchakiwsky, and 68 participants. The camp for older boys (yunaky), “Black Gates,” has a staff of seven and 39 campers. The camp director is Vasyl Liteplo. ... the camp for older boys (“yunaky”), age 11 and up, ... In addition, there are two one-week tours of a camp for 7-year-old first- time campers, whose directors are Petrusia Paslawsky and Marta Torielli, and a specialized two-week co-ed camp for older youths who have com- pleted at least their freshman year in high school. Directed by Christine Stawnychy, the program for older youths encompasses more specialized activities such as canoeing and hiking. Campers at “Vovcha Tropa” will celebrate their annual “Den Plastuna” (Day of the Plast Member) with spe- cial programs, including performances by the individual camps and bonfires, during the weekend of July 18-19. The first camps were held at “Vovcha Tropa” in 1953. That first year a total of 580 campers participat- ed in Plast activities at their new camp, located 30 miles southeast of Albany, N.Y., and close to the train station in Chatham, N.Y. Since then, thousands ... “yunachky” with their camp command and counselors, ... more have enjoyed the camp’s fields and woodlands. The campsite also hosted international Plast jamborees in 1962, 1972, 1982 and 1992. “Vovcha Tropa” marked its 40th anniversary in 1994 by honoring its founding fathers during special cere- monies held at the campsite and during an anniversary banquet held in the fall. The anniversary was an occasion also for the camp to embark on a major fund-raising drive aimed at renovating and improving the camp for current and future generations of Plast members. The camp is directed by an execu- tive board of volunteers, composed of both Plast members and supporters of the organization; the executive board is headed by George Huk. For information about the camp con- tact: Ukrainian Plast Camp, Sayre Hill Road, East Chatham, NY 12060; (518) 392-5801; or check the website at www.plast.org/KTK/oseli/VovchaTropa. ... and the camp for “novaky.” All photos were taken on the camps’ opening day, July 5. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1998 No. 29

Then what is the state of relations of the UOC-U.S.A. Was it aware that by one states that he recognizes another. In Patriarch Filaret... today between the UOC-KP and the accepting the jurisdiction of Ukraine this has caused great indignation. (Continued from page 3) UOC-U.S.A.? Constantinople it would have to break all ties with the UOC-KP? In your opinion, why was the UOC- they were leaving the UOC-U.S.A. After Up to the time when the hierarchy [of the KP not invited to Odesa to meet with they had officially left that body, they UOC-U.S.A.] came under the patriarch of Patriarch Bartholomew wrote of this in a Patriarch Bartholomew? turned to us. Constantinople we celebrated [divine litur- letter to the Moscow patriarch in which he gy] together. We were in eucharistic union. expressed himself in this way: The two patriarchs met to resolve their How do you view what is occurring own matter. That matter was the Estonian today in the UOC-U.S.A.? Archbishop Antony would come to Kyiv (Quotes from a document) “Those and celebrate divine liturgy with us. After accepted under our omophorion have the Orthodox Church and involved the break in Last year I canceled plans to visit the the death of Patriarch Mstyslav, it was even obligation to formally declare that they will eucharistic union between Moscow and United States, so that they would not blame proposed that he become the patriarch of not strive for autocephaly for the Ukrainian Constantinople after the union of the us for inflaming the situation. I did this to Ukraine. In 1993 he was here at the Sobor Church or use even in part the methods of Estonian Orthodox Church [with avoid any suggestions that I wanted to as a candidate. But he declined the nomina- the autocephalists who operate using all Constantinople]. intrude. Our position is not simply neutral, tion for election as patriarch after he real- possible methods. The patriarchs of Constantinople and it is to maintain good relations with the ized that the situation in Ukraine was fairly “From another point of view, it is no Moscow began searching for a way out of UOC-U.S.A. serious. longer possible for them to cooperate or this problem. They found a solution, but to However, from another point of view, After [the UOC-U.S.A.] subordinated maintain relations with the schismatic do so they came to Ukraine. we will not abandon those Ukrainians who itself to the ecumenical patriarch of Ukrainian groups that do not belong to the So what did the ecumenical patriarch find themselves outside that Church. I Constantinople, our eucharistic union was community of the Ukrainian Church with- achieve on the territory of Ukraine? He spoke of this earlier when our misunder- halted because the Patriarchate of out doing damage to themselves; if they made peace with the Moscow patriarch, but standings began. But under no circum- Constantinople banned concelebration. truly accept this as a principle of relations at what cost? At the cost that the ecumeni- stances will we interfere. This caused bewilderment among our hier- in the canonical community of Orthodox cal patriarch announced that he recognizes We will do all in our power to maintain archy and the spiritual leadership of the Churches with other non-canonical [enti- only the Moscow patriarch in Ukraine. good relations. That is why I propose that diaspora. While Patriarch Mstyslav was ties], without saying it goes that not So the two patriarchs made peace at the we meet with the leadership of the alive we concelebrated, but after Patriarch upholding this would mean their withdraw- expense of Ukrainians, and not in any old Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A., Mstyslav’s death and their subordination al from the Church community.” place, or on the territory of Russia, but on with Metropolitan Constantine or [to Constantinople], we became non- These are the words of the ecumenical the territory of Ukraine. Archbishop Antony, here in Kyiv. With this canonical and all contact ceased. patriarch in a letter to the Moscow patri- Today, are there any relations in mind, I sent an invitation to Archbishop They have forgotten that they were in arch, in which he clearly states that the between Patriarch Bartholomew and Antony to come to Kyiv to meet and dis- the same situation in which our Church UOC-U.S.A. accepts an agreement that it yourself.? cuss these problems, but we have not yet finds itself today. Until their subordination will not strive for the autocephaly of the received a reply. to the ecumenical patriarch they also did Ukrainian Church, that it will not maintain There are no relations. I met with the If he cannot come to Kyiv to resolve not have eucharistic union with other relations with us. ecumenical patriarch in 1992, at which these questions, I am ready to travel to Churches. Now they have it, but have bro- We found out about this later. Ukrainian time he said that Ukraine has the right to its America to resolve these issues, so that ken those ties with us. This causes us con- Americans discovered this letter [Protocol “pomisna” (particular) autocephalous there are no misunderstandings between us, sternation. 937]. Church inasmuch as it has become a state. so that we can continue to work for the The UOC-U.S.A. has halted relations However, there were obstacles because the glory of the Ukrainian Church. Maybe this is a question better asked with us, has stopped concelebrating the Ukrainian Church is divided, so he said that divine liturgy with us. But, they do raise the we should unite and then he would recog- question of an autocephalous Ukrainian nize us. Church before the ecumenical patriarch. It But everything is being done so that is an objective effort, and we cannot blame union does not take place. From one side, them for lack of effort. When Patriarch one says unite and we will recognize you, Bartholomew was in the United States and but Moscow does all in its power so that Canada those questions were raised. union does not take place. And if union does not take place, neither will recogni- The diaspora Churches claim that tion. they joined Constantinople for two main The process of unification has begun in reasons: first, to get worldwide recogni- Ukraine, but the Moscow bishops in tion and legitimacy, and, second, to get Ukraine are doing everything not to allow support for a legitimately recognized for recognition of the Kyiv Patriarchate by independent Orthodox Church in the other “pomisni” Orthodox Churches. Ukraine. Please comment. So, then, how do you look at the Truly, they were not in eucharistic union Moscow Patriarchate which more than with the Orthodox community. Now they once has called your Church non- find themselves with this eucharistic union, canonical? but at what cost? At the cost of subordination to the ecu- The point here is that we toss aside as menical patriarch. With their entry into the ridiculous all the declarations that the Kyiv eucharistic union they promised that they Patriarchate is non-canonical. Our Church will not work for recognition for the maintains the Orthodox faith, is ruled by Ukrainian Orthodox Church as an auto- Orthodox canons, but is not recognized cephalous Church. today. From one point of view they seem to be However, other national Churches have declaring [that they will work for recogni- not been recognized. The Russian Church tion]. We know from the press that they did was not recognized for 141 years, but it turn to the ecumenical patriarch, but these existed all the same as a Church. The declarations have remained simply declara- Bulgarian Church was not recognized for tions. 70 years, the Romanian Church for 34 The ecumenical patriarch when he was years, the Serbian Church for 28 years, the CLAUDIA (HAWRYSZCZAK) OLESNICKI in Odesa, however, made another declara- Greek Church for 18 to 20 years. tion that damaged our situation greatly The Ukrainian Church is not the first to Born May 5, 1906 in Luka Mala, Ukraine because in it he said that he recognized go through this. The process of recognition only the Moscow Patriarchate. is a fairly protracted process, but we exist Died July 2, 1998 in St. Louis, Missouri It turned out this way: instead of recog- as a Church because we maintain the nizing the Kyiv Patriarchate after the union Orthodox ecclesiologies of the Church that FOUNDING EDITOR OF THE [of the UOC-U.S.A. with Constantinople], all Orthodox Churches profess. the ecumenical patriarch did the opposite Specifically what are Orthodox ecclesi- UKRAINIAN WOMEN’S JOURNAL, OUR LIFE after the union. ologies? Where there is a bishop and where Instead of helping, the patriarch did the Eucharist takes place, a Church exists. damage. He is being blamed for twice sell- We have an episcopate, the Eucharist is cel- The second of four daughters of Rev. Andrij and Leontyna ing-out Ukraine: in 1686 the Kyiv ebrated, that means we are a Church. And (Petrasewycz) Hawryszczak, she completed the study of law in Metropolia was handed over [by if we are a Church, we can only be canoni- Cracow before coming to the United States in 1936. She later Constantinople] to the Moscow cal. There cannot be a non-canonical earned a Master of Social Work degree from Hunter College and Patriarchate. But in 1990 Ecumenical Church because if Christ is present among Patriarch Demetrios, in a letter to Moscow us and there is a Eucharist, then we are a was a Certified Social Worker in New York until her retirement. Patriarch Pimen, said that Constantinople Church and there is salvation. recognizes the jurisdiction of the Moscow Another matter is recognition, and I Survivors include a daughter, Anna Larsen of Brooklyn, NY; a son, Patriarchate according to the boundaries of have told you about the problems concern- Mark of O’Phallon, MO; her sister, Marta Jarosz; six grandchildren 1593, that is with the exclusion of the Kyiv ing that. Whatever our relations with the and seven great-grandsons. Metropolia, minus Ukraine. Moscow Patriarchate, there is opposition So we have a situation where one patri- [on their part]. We want to unite into a sin- arch says he recognizes one set of bound- gle Church in Ukraine. Moscow does much aries, and then [a few years later] another to interfere in this effort. No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1998 15

Volodymyr Horbulin, Minister of Defense Toronto’s Ukrainian... content among the faithful and the clergy. NATO chief... Oleksander Kuzmuk and Verkhovna Rada Indeed, at the 50th anniversary cele- (Continued from page 1) Chairman Oleksander Tkachenko. (Continued from page 1) brations held on Toronto’s Canadian ture with the United States, Norway and After meeting with the NATO secretary- Saskatchewan in November 1995. National Exhibition grounds on June 14, Russia. general, Mr. Horbulin said Ukraine would On July 2 the Ukrainian Catholic met- harmony appeared predominant. Bishop “Until quite recently PivdenMash was work to make its military equipment meet ropolitan of Canada, Archbishop Michael Danylak joined Bishops Husar, NATO standards, which he hoped would in a restricted zone, but I stand here and Bzdel, presided over a meeting of over Metropolitan Bzdel, Metropolitan pave the way for increased cooperation in this is convincing evidence that there 60 of the Toronto Eparchy’s clergy at the Stephen Sulyk of Philadelphia, Bishop the military sphere and allow Ukraine to must be no restricted zones in Europe in Church of the Holy Protectress with Severian Yakymyshyn of British secure orders for military equipment from the 21st century,” said the NATO secre- Bishops Borecky, Danylak and Pasichny the Western defense alliance. Columbia and Bishop Julian Gbur, secre- tary-general, according to Interfax- in attendance, to deliver the formal Ukraine’s representative to NATO, tary of the Bishop’s Synod in Lviv, in Ukraine. announcement. congratulating Bishop Borecky for his Kostiantyn Morozov, who was independent At the meeting Bishop Borecky spoke Mr. Solana stressed the vast private- Ukraine’s first defense minister, explained extraordinarily long years of service. sector potential of PivdenMash, the one- about the need to preserve the Old Soon after the celebrations Metropolitan in an interview with the newspaper Den Church Slavonic Language and the time producer of the SS-18 rocket that that Mr. Solana visited Dnipropetrovsk to Bzdel told the Edmonton-based Ukrainian carried the Soviet nuclear arsenal on its Eastern Rite liturgical tradition. Bishop get a first-hand look at Ukraine’s potential Danylak did not address the gathering. News weekly that “no new bishop has yet tips. He cited the Sea Launch project as as a supplier of military hardware. been named to serve the Toronto Eparchy,” one example of that potential. At the Ukrainian Catholic Church’s “Right now the talk is limited to politi- adding that “perhaps one will be named Mr. Solana was in Ukraine at the invi- Synod in Lviv in September 1997, cal recognition for possible cooperation Bishops Borecky and Danylak apparently following the next synod in Lviv.” tation of President Leonid Kuchma on with Ukraine,” said Mr. Morozov. the occasion of the first anniversary of both agreed to step down if a third party One priest, on condition of anonymity, “Today NATO’s interest in Ukraine’s could be found to fill their seemingly offered that while the latest moves in the the signing of the special charter between defense complex has become more con- Ukraine and NATO, and to outline plans joint post. Bishop Pasichny was Toronto Eparchy dealt superficially with crete. NATO needs to modernize the mil- approached to accept the position of an obvious source of friction, the Curia for the future development of relations. itary potential of those countries that eparch of Toronto by the acting head of in Rome continued to ignore calls to Those discussions included talks on have been invited to take membership in the restructuring and conversion of the Church, Bishop Lubomyr Husar, but appoint a bishop’s adjutor, or auxiliary, the alliance. And, as we know, they use Bishop Pasichny asked that the appoint- Ukraine’s defense industry, vocational military equipment and technology that is whose presence would make the eparchy training for de-commissioned military ment be delayed due to his health prob- easier to rule and make the question of similar to ours.” lems. Bishop Pasichny underwent coro- officers, strategies for dealing with emer- Mr. Morozov stressed that Ukraine’s succession less controversial. The clergy- gency situations and economic security. nary bypass surgery in February. man added that the new appointee would modernized T-72 battle tank, which is cur- At the synod, Metropolitan Bzdel sug- “The stability, security and prosperity himself soon be up for retirement (if he rently being produced for Pakistan, is well- gested that deference be shown to the of Europe cannot be attained without sta- suited to the needs of Poland, the Czech upcoming 50th anniversary of Bishop chooses to accede to the Vatican-mandat- ble relations between the member-states republic and Hungary, the three countries Borecky’s episcopate (he had been con- ed age limit of 75), and that someone of NATO and Ukraine, as much as that have been invited to join NATO. secrated on May 27, 1948). more youthful would have been more Ukraine plays a key role in ensuring During the meeting with Defense These recommendations were for- appropriate. these factors,” said Mr. Solana at a press Minister Kuzmuk, Mr. Solana was also warded to the Vatican’s Congregation of The Rev. Bohdan Lukie, a Toronto- conference at NATO’s Information and offered the use of military training Eastern Churches, which then arranged based member of the Redemptorist order, Documentation Center in Kyiv on July 9. grounds in western Ukraine for NATO for the issuance of the appropriate bullae described the incoming hierarch as the During his two-day visit he met with military exercises. NATO is currently at the appropriate time. ideal man to reconcile the opposing fac- President Kuchma, Minister of Foreign looking for a primary training site in A source in the eparchy told The tions in the eparchy, and underlined that Affairs Borys Tarasyuk, Secretary of the Eastern Europe; a site in Macedonia is Weekly that on July 30 Bishop Pasichny this is the most important consideration National Security and Defense Council also under consideration. will preside over a “healing day” for the at this point. The Rev. Lukie told The eparchy’s clergy to be held at the Mount Weekly that Bishop Pasichny is “a gen- The delegation arrived in Washington Mary Retreat Center in Ancaster, Ontario. tle, kind and caring man of God. He truly as Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister To be sure, the acrimony sparked by is a mediator and reconciliator.” Kuchma-Gore committee... the Vatican’s appointment of an apostolic (Continued from page 1) Borys Tarasyuk was concluding his series Metropolitan Bzdel said, “the Toronto administrator in December 1992 has of talks with U.S. officials, covering Eparchy desperately needs ... a com- High on the agenda was the need to largely faded into the background, as improve Ukraine’s investment climate by political, security and economic issues. Vatican representatives had ceased issu- forter, a healer; someone with the wis- resolving remaining investment disputes His schedule included meetings with ing demands for Bishop Borecky’s imme- dom of Solomon, the patience of Job and with American businessmen. This issue Secretary of State Albright, Defense diate resignation (the last one coming in the strength of King David.” found itself in an amendment to this Secretary William Cohen and Sen. Mitch 1996), and Bishop Danylak had moderat- September 24 has been scheduled for year’s U.S. foreign assistance legislation, McConnell, the Republican chairman of ed his erstwhile pursuit of dissidents the incoming bishop’s consecration as requiring Secretary of State Madeleine an appropriations subcommittee that ear- within the eparchy. The modus vivendi eparch of Toronto and eastern Canada, K. Albright to “certify” that Ukraine was marks much of the U.S. aid for Ukraine. the two hierarchs established muted dis- but a venue has not yet been chosen. making progress in these disputes before releasing some $200 million in aid for Ukraine. The secretary announced her certifica- tion earlier this year, stating that “signifi- cant progress” was made. But she held back some $25 million as an incentive for Ukraine to resolve the remaining dis- putes. Otherwise these funds, earmarked for Ukrainian government reform pro- grams, would be redirected to private- sector programs in Ukraine. The committees also addressed the need for reforming Ukraine’s energy sec- tor, especially in getting consumers to pay for the energy they use. Privatization and reform in agriculture were on the agenda, particularly the need for Ukraine to rid itself of agricultural monopolies and privatize Khlib Ukraiiny and grain elevators, and to stop the gov- ernment practice of buying up the grain harvest. Among the new items on the agenda was a Ukrainian proposal to have the huge deposits of Caspian oil and gas tra- verse to Central and Western Europe through Ukraine. This places Ukraine in a high-stakes competition with other pro- posed pipeline routes, among them through Turkey, Iran and Russia. The Ukrainian delegation included Finance Minister Ihor Mityukov, Economics Minister Vasyl Rohovyi, National Bank of Ukraine Chairman Viktor Yuschenko, and Roman Shpek, who heads the National Agency for Development and European Integration. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1998 No. 29

Canada. After the arrival of Greek faithful from Europe, most of whom Canada and in the U.S. has been very dif- Remarks on the history... Catholic bishops (1907 in the U.S. and belonged to the Ukrainian Autocephalous ferent. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Continued from page 3) 1912 in Canada) tensions did not abate, Orthodox Church (UAOC) that had been in Canada began its negotiations with opposed the Ukrainian national move- in part because of the desire of newly re-established in 1942 in Poland, Constantinople in the late 1980s. Unlike ment and the formation of a Ukrainian arrived bishops to take full control of changed the face of Ukrainian Orthodoxy the American Church, the Church in Orthodox Church, even more vehemently parish life and to have a decisive voice in in North America. Most of these believ- Canada had never aspired to form one an autocephalous one. community life. ers were from pre-1939 Soviet Ukraine, Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the dias- In recent years, readers of The The struggle for Ukrainian independ- Volhynia and Bukovyna, and had very pora. It limited its involvement in Ukrainian Weekly have been informed of ence during the years 1917-1920 has- different traditions from the Galician Ukrainian Orthodox affairs in Ukraine in the re-establishment of the Ukrainian tened the growth of Ukrainian national immigrants and their children in North the late 1980s and early 1990s. Given the Autocephalous Orthodox Church in consciousness in North America. In America. Beyond conflicts in mere cul- smaller proportion of post-World War II Ukraine in 1989; the renaming of the Canada, the Ukrainian intelligentsia, tural terms, the question of the “legitima- immigrants in its flock, the Ukrainian Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine as many of whom had been educated in cy” of Bishop Theodorovich’s original Orthodox Church in Canada had a small- the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow Canada, came into conflict with the consecration in the 1920s under the origi- er constituency emotionally tied to Patriarchate and granting of autonomy in Greek-Catholic bishop, and led the nal UAOC was also an issue. Ukraine than did the Ukrainian Orthodox 1990; the failed attempt by Metropolitan movement to establish the Ukrainian The desire to heal the breach among Church in the U.S. Filaret to obtain autocephaly in 1991, and Greek-Orthodox Church of Canada in Ukrainian Orthodox in North America In contrast, under the leadership of the creation of the Ukrainian Orthodox 1918. In America the Ukrainian resulted in Bishop Theodorovich accept- Metropolitan Mstyslav, the Ukrainian Church – Kyiv Patriarchate in 1992 by a Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. was ing reconsecration in 1949. As a result a Orthodox Church in the U.S. sought to union of Filaret’s supporters and most of established in 1920. number of Ukrainian Orthodox parishes establish one Church throughout the dias- the UAOC. These complex actions have The success of the Ukrainian of the Constantinople Patriarchate, (the pora. After he became metropolitan of now resulted in three Ukrainian Orthodox Orthodox Churches was a result of their UOCA), transferred to the Ukrainian the UAOC in the West, the Church in the Churches in Ukraine, with the largest independence from Rome or St. Orthodox Church of the U.S.A., which U.S. became closely tied to that in under the Moscow Patriarchate recognized Petersburg-Moscow, their association after 1951 was centered in South Bound Europe, South America and Australia. by the Orthodox world. The Ukrainian with the Kozak past, their use of compre- Brook, N.J. The election in 1992 of Metropolitan Orthodox Church–Kyiv Patriarchate and hensible Ukrainian instead of Church The Orthodox Church in Canada did Mstyslav as patriarch of the UAOC in the UAOC are headed by patriarchs but Slavonic in the liturgy, parish ownership not take part in these discussions. In 1947 Ukraine bound the faithful more closely not recognized by other Orthodox of property and conciliar forms of gov- the Church had replaced Bishop to the Church in Ukraine. In addition, Churches despite frequent overtures to the ernment. The Church in the U.S. declared Teodorovych with Archbishop Mstyslav many more priests in the U.S. than Patriarchate of Constantinople. itself part of the UAOC established in Skrypnyk of the UAOC who arrived from Canada are new immigrants from Ukraine, and in 1924 Bishop Ioan Europe. Conflicts between the consistory Ukraine and Eastern Europe. These fac- Ukrainian Orthodoxy in North America Theodorovich arrived from Ukraine to and Archbishop Mstyslav led to his resig- tors help explain why the resistance to The Ukrainian Orthodox Churches in lead the North American Ukrainian nation in 1950 and transfer to the submitting to Constantinople by the Canada and the United States were Churches. However, whereas the Church Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. Church in the U.S. has been much greater founded primarily by Ukrainian emi- in Canada accepted him as its bishop, it Since many of the bishops who arrived than in Canada. grants and their children from Galicia nonetheless maintained for itself a sepa- in North America after the war had been The Churches in Canada and Ukraine who were discontent with the situation of rate Canadian entity administered from consecrated by bishops of the Polish have varied constituencies and have the Greek-Catholic Church (the name Winnipeg. The Canadian Church from its Autocephalous Orthodox Church, in espoused various viewpoints in the past. then used for the historical Uniates and beginning combined Ukrainian and Church terms the events after World War Many questions are being asked at present. present-day Ukrainian Catholics). The Canadian patriotism. II had resolved the question of legitimate How “Ukrainian” should the Churches hostile reception that many Roman In the U.S. a group of Orthodox clergy episcopal consecration in both the U.S. remain? How integrated should they be Catholic clergy gave the Greek- and laity were dissatisfied from the start and Canada. However the Ukrainian with other Orthodox bodies? How closely Catholics, the demand that church prop- with the legitimacy of episcopal orders of Churches were still not accepted as legit- should the faithful here be tied to Ukraine? erties be controlled by the Roman Bishop Theodorovich and when a new imate by the Orthodox groups in the U.S. How should they balance their traditional Catholic hierarchy, the attempts to have group decided to convert from the Greek- or by the world Orthodox community. goal of Church independence with their Polish and other Roman Catholic clergy Catholic Church in 1928, they joined forces The Ukrainian Orthodox Churches desire for recognition by other Orthodox serve the Ukrainian Greek-Catholics, as and established the Ukrainian Orthodox rejected subordination to Constantinople Churches? What is the respective role of well as the Vatican order permitting only Church of America (UOCA) and accepted and, unlike groups of Serbs or Bulgarians the laity and the clergy? unmarried clergy to serve or be ordained the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of or Russians, they were not subordinated A study of the past does not provide greatly disturbed the Ukrainian Greek- Constantinople. to a recognized Church in their home answers, but it should assist informed dis- Catholics who began arriving in the After World War II, the arrival of large country. In addition, unlike emigré cussion. In addition to the encyclopedias 1870s in the U.S. and the 1890s in numbers of Orthodox bishops, clergy and churches such as the Russian Synod mentioned above, readers may wish to Abroad, they did not accept a unified consult some of the following publications, hierarchical administration. The many of which are available from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the church book stores in South Bound Brook U.S.A., the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Winnipeg, from the Ukrainian book in Canada, and the Ukrainian store in Edmonton, and from the Canadian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Institute of Ukrainian Studies and the (Europe, South America and Australia) Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. were three separate metropolitanates with merely spiritual unity. Early History: In the late 1990s the Ukrainian Orthodox in North America are racked Ivan Wlasowsky, “Outline History of by controversy and stymied as to how the Ukrainian Orthodox Church,” two they should deal with independent volumes (Bound Brook); Ihor Sevcenko, Ukraine and the Church there. “Ukraine between East and West” (CIUS A major reason for the change has Press). been linguistic and cultural assimilation Church in Ukraine: in North America and the passing of gen- erations. Third- and fourth-generation Frank E. Sysyn, “The Ukrainian parishioners, frequently of mixed fami- Orthodox Question in the USSR” lies, no longer find the dedication to (Harvard Ukrainian Studies Fund); Ukraine and its customs so compelling. Bohdan Bociurkiw, “Soviet Religious They frequently do not understand the Policy in Ukraine: Two Case Studies” Ukrainian language that drew their (Harvard Ukrainian Studies Fund). grandparents to the Church. In many Ukrainians in North America: cases, they wish the Church to be more active in general Orthodox affairs. Some Orest Martynovych, “Ukrainians in have transferred to English-language Canada, 1891-1924” (CIUS Press); parishes such as the Orthodox Church of Myron Kuropas, “The Ukrainian America to meet these needs. By the Americans: Roots and Aspirations” same token, many of the Orthodox clergy (University of Toronto Press). found their exclusion by other Orthodox Ukrainian Churches: bodies troubling. Paradoxically, it has been during a Paul Yuzyk, “The Ukrainian Greek- period of Ukrainian independence and Orthodox Church of Canada, 1918-1951” the rebirth of Ukrainian Orthodoxy in (Ottawa). Ukraine that the crisis has occurred in Numerous articles on the situation of North America. Indeed the failure to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine have establish a united autocephalous univer- appeared in the last few years. A selec- sally recognized Ukrainian Orthodox tion by Serhii Plokhy and Frank E. Sysyn Church in Ukraine has been a catalyst in has been assembled in the collection, some ways for the decisions taken in “Church and Nation in Contemporary Canada and the U.S. Ukraine,” which has been submitted to Recent history of the Church in CIUS Press. No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1998 17

there was no help. This time, it was too within a week of each other, that their races, she thinks that everything every- Mama’s war late for false papers. remaining parents had died in the post- one does is wrong, and even evil, and she (Continued from page 7) My sister died of pneumonia at 14 war years. It was a delayed mourning. is obsessed with the minutest details of crazy, it was suicidal. I can’t believe I did months. Mama’s only tangible memory Mama’s beloved younger brother, all our lives. If only we would listen to it, but I had to.” of her first-born, Lesia, is a brown photo- Mykhanio the doctor, had been released her and do things Her way – we, she, and graph of a beautiful baby girl, dressed all from Siberian imprisonment only to die When Mama still talked about the war, life itself would be just fine. Why, if her in white, in a white coffin. I don’t even in his mother’s arms upon return. My mother were alive, she would listen to I was too young or too involved with know where she is buried. Mama lost grandmother died soon after. her every word, because her mother was other things to listen more intently or to touch with reality then, wandering Mama never got over the traumatic always right, her mother was a saint, her ask questions. Now, there is no way I can Bavarian city streets with an almost- final separation from her family. She lost words were pure gold. If only. ... ask, and so much that I still need to learn. shaved head. her family and homeland to Stalin and Mama’s condition will not improve. I know very little about my older sis- The war did not end for her in 1945. Hitler. We have to struggle very hard to main- ter, my parents’ first baby, who was The rest of her family was still in When I was in high school, Mama tain our own sanity in dealing with her. born probably in 1943. Often Mama had Ukraine. She and my father could not finally fell apart. The war came back to Soon, she will find her peace. For now, to travel with the baby on trains that no return because they had been in the haunt her – the bombs, the voices, the when she’s not ranting and raving and longer had any windows. She thinks the underground, working against two ene- dogs, the gallows, the officers and her worrying, Mama sits with her arms fold- infant got sick from the cold trains, and mies, one now defeated, one victorious. baby. She was hospitalized a few times, ed across her chest. There’s a grim half- what Mama believes was her cold They and I lived in a DP (displaced per- underwent electrical shock treatments, smile on her lips, as her unblinking eyes breast milk. Only Germans and sons) camp for four years, until a new and has been on medication ever since. either stare or dart about, seeing some- Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans in occu- land an ocean away welcomed us. The pills help only so much; she is still thing wonderful or terrible from long, pied territories) were permitted access Only after Stalin’s death in 1953 was not all there. It’s worst when she forgets long ago. to medical assistance. For the postal contact resumed with the Soviet to take her medicine, and yet gets so It’s all right. Mama has seen more than Untermenschen (subhumans, the Slavs) Union. Both my parents then learned, offended if we remind her. Her mind enough reality for one lifetime.

Newsbriefs (Continued from page 2) “excluded ... by those whom it brought to power.” (RFE/RL Newsline) Cargo plane goes down in Persian Gulf KYIV – A Ukrainian IL-76 cargo plane bound for Kharkiv exploded soon after take-off from Saudi Arabia’s Ros El Heim airport late on July 13. The plane fell into the Persian Gulf, killing all eight persons on board. The plane was leased by the Kyiv company ATI. As of July 14, six bodies had been found. An investigation is under way. (Eastern Economist) Kuchma urges approval of revised budget KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma appealed to the Parliament on July 10 to approve a revised 1998 budget draft, sub- mitted by the Cabinet of Ministers earlier this month. The draft reduces the budget deficit to 2.3 percent of GDP. The govern- ment has faced difficulties in raising funds to finance the 3.3 percent deficit for which the original budget provided. The revised budget must be passed “to alleviate tension in view of the acute economic crisis in the country,” Ukrainian Television quoted Mr. Kuchma as saying. The president also asked the Verkhovna Rada to refrain from passing bills that “require additional budget assignations or reduce budget revenues.” (RFE/RL Newsline) Concert tours must be registered KYIV – The president signed a decree on July 7 stipulating that as of December 1, 1998, organization of concert tours in Ukraine will require a registration certifi- cate issued by the state. Organizers of con- cert tours are to submit their state concert tour certificate and tickets for the concert/show to the local state tax service at least 10 days before the event is to be held. If these requirements are not fulfilled all proceeds from the concert/show will go to the state budget. In addition, fines will be levied. (Eastern Economist) Foreign investment may be in hryvni KYIV – Foreign investments can now be made in the national currency, the hryv- nia, purchased at the interbank currency market or received as profit as a result of investments made in Ukraine, according to a presidential decree of July 7. Regular rep- resentatives of non-residents and Ukrainian residents, and financial agents servicing the operations of non-residents without regular representatives in Ukraine must submit sta- tistical reports on foreign investments. The procedure for foreign investments through purchase of state promissory notes and their volumes are to be determined by Ministry of Finance and the National Bank of Ukraine. (Eastern Economist) 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1998 No. 29

been divided through all the past 100 The Ukrainian Canadian... years into two hostile camps: the “left” (Continued from page 6) and the “right.” “foreign” found a more serendipitous When the first new immigrants came “solution” to this problem. to Canada at the turn of the century, they Some had their first experience with were divided in their outlook from the prejudice while still in elementary school, very beginning. Those who were reli- as a result of which they changed their gious founded their own churches and good Ukrainian first names to spare them- secular clubs and societies, which at first selves the taunting of their classmates, and were not very political, but in time in some cases of their teachers. Boys with became distinctly right-wing. Those who names like Myroslav, Volodymyr, Ihor or were non-believers formed socialist and Taras, and girls with names like Vasylyna, radical societies and secular cultural soci- Nastasia or Oksana, took on names that eties and clubs with decidedly left-wing views and policies. were more acceptable by the general com- This right-left split in the new commu- munity. The irony is that today’s genera- nity became even deeper after the 1917 tion, especially girls and young women, revolution in the Russian tsarist empire, love to have some of these “different” and especially after 1922, with the establish- “exotic” names. ment of a Soviet regime in Ukraine. It This blatant prejudice and discrimina- resulted in an even deeper division in the tion lasted through the first four decades of Ukrainian Canadian community, a divi- the century, until World War II, after which sion that continued through all the it subsided a great deal, at least toward the decades and persists, especially with the older, more established ethnic groups. It older, immigrant sector of the communi- continued, however, against people of the ty, to this day. visible minorities, the Chinese, Japanese, Those in the “right-wing” sector of the Pakistanis, Filipinos, Jamaicans, Arabs, community founded a variety of organi- etc. While, on the whole, fewer Canadians zations with different policies, programs are showing bigotry and prejudice against and objectives over which they often had minorities than in the past, ironically and sharp disagreements, but they were sadly, these include not a few young always united in their opposition to the Canadians of Ukrainian origin, who ignore Soviet regime in Ukraine and to any or are unaware of the fact that the same communist, socialist or small “l” liberal attitude was once shown towards their policies or ideas. immigrant grandparents – 75 and 100 Those in the “left-wing” sector of the years ago. community, who in the first two decades The post-war years belonged to various socialist groups and parties, in 1918 founded a secular cultur- The postwar generation of Canadian- al organization, called the Ukrainian born Ukrainians, who became part of the Labor-Farmer Temple Association so-called “baby boom” generation, found a (ULFTA), and in 1922 a benefit organi- totally different atmosphere from the one zation, the Workers Benevolent in which their parents and grandparents Association (WBA). lived. Many Ukrainian Canadians have In 1921, when the Communist Party of since made a name for themselves, as sci- Canada was born, the leaders of these entists, writers, teachers, physicians, Ukrainian organizations were among the lawyers or leaders in business. Many have most active in launching it and encour- been elected to federal, political and aged a substantial number of their mem- municipal offices; several became cabinet bers to join. In time, this made it possible ministers in both federal and provincial for the party to influence and eventually Air Ukraine governments, one was for many years a control and direct the policies of these Ä‚¥aΥ̥fl ìÍð‡ªÌË provincial ombudsman, one became a organizations, which it did for most of provincial premier and one a governor their history. general. Through all the decades, both the right THE ONLY NON-STOP SERVICE BETWEEN In the more recent decades, ethnic and left sectors of the community have NORTH AMERICA AND UKRAINE names have become totally acceptable been served by their own newspapers. among most Canadians, especially the The late 1920s and early 1930s saw a very young. So reading or hearing about a new wave of some 70,000 Ukrainian TUESDAY, FRIDAY AND SUNDAY FLIGHTS TO governor-general named Ramon immigrants arrive in Canada. They came Hnatyshyn, a TV producer named Slawko largely from the same regions as did the Klymkiw, or a soprano named Joanne first wave: from Halychyna and New York – Kyiv Kolomyjec doesn’t even raise an eyebrow Bukovyna. Whereas the immigrants who among young Canadians today, as it most came at the turn of the century fled New York – Lviv – Kyiv certainly would have in generations past. chiefly from economic and national In sports, “foreign” names have been oppression by the Austro-Hungarian • Flying time is 4 hours faster than any other airline accepted since as far back as the mid- regime, these new immigrants fled from • Highly qualified pilots 1920s. similar, if not harsher, oppression by the • Excellent service with traditional Ukrainian hospitality Further changes in the attitude of many Polish and Romanian occupiers of their and great meals on board Canadians toward ethnic groups took place lands. • Day-time and evening flights from JFK-New York after 1971, when the federal and provincial However many of them were also governments adopted specific policies on political refugees, having taken part in multiculturalism. While these policies bitter struggles against that oppression. 1-800-UKRAINE (1-800-857-2463) have not been totally successful, in that Many of these immigrants joined various they have not met the needs of all immi- existing organizations and gave them an or contact your travel agent. grants – especially the more recent immi- added impetus. Those who were anti- grants and those of the “visible minorities” Soviet joined the right-wing organiza- For arrival and departure information – they have helped some of the older and tions, but many joined the left. Indeed, more established ethnic groups, like the the latter helped form a new organiza- call (718) 656-9896, (718) 632-6909 Ukrainians, to win greater recognition and tion, the Association to Aid the acceptance as integral members of Liberation Movement in Western Canadian society. 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Friday, July 31 grams for this celebration. Admission is $10 per car. Bring your own picnic basket EAST HANOVER, N.J.: Project and refreshments. For further information Harmony is sponsoring a farewell banquet contact: Ukrainian Canadian Congress - for a delegation of 20 Ukrainian officials Ottawa, telephone: (613) 771-0723, fax, and professionals who are participating in (613) 775-9488; or Ukrainian Canadian a two-week program called “The Project Professional and Business Association - Harmony Training Program to Combat the Ottawa, telephone, (613) 728-5409; fax, Trafficking of Women in Ukraine.” The (613) 728-5409. goal of this program is to provide partici- pants with practical skills and techniques Saturday-Sunday, September 19-20 in carrying out anti-trafficking initiatives in Ukraine and contributing to internation- BALTIMORE: The 1998 Ukrainian al efforts in this area. Participants are pro- Festival will take place at the Baltimore vided with networking opportunities and Inner Harbor, Market Place. Entertainment access to U.S. and international resources. and events to take place are as follows: Project Harmony is a non-profit organiza- performances by Lyman Ukrainian Folk tion based in Vermont that facilitates edu- Dancers, live orchestra both days, cational and professional exchanges Ukrainian Easter egg demonstrations, between the new independent states and exhibits of wood-carving and crafts by the United States. Attendees will have an local artists, silent auction/raffles, games opportunity to meet with delegates from and rides in the new children’s area, and Ukraine at the Ramada Hotel and food and refreshments. Vendors and mer- Conference Center. The cost is $25 per chants will be selling various items. For person and reservations are required by information please contact Jullie, (410) July 25. Contact Renee Berrian at Project 687-3465. For program advertisement Harmony, (802) 496-4545. (due by August 3) please contact Yvette, (301) 435-4413. Saturday, August 1 Saturday, September 26 SANDY HOOK, N.J.: The Ukrainian National Women’s League of America, BALTIMORE: The Post-Festival Dance- New Jersey Regional Council will cele- Zabava will take place at 8 p.m.-2 a.m. at brate “Soyuzianka Day” with a picnic and St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, entertainment at Sandy Hook Gateway 2401 Eastern Ave. at Montford. The event National Recreational Area, Fort will feature a live orchestra, light buffet, Hancock, Building 11. The guest speaker silent auction and raffles. Tickets may be will be Olha Trytyak, UNWLA vice-presi- purchased in advance at the Ukrainian dent, honorary president of the New Festival information booth (see above). Jersey Regional Council, and administra- For information on the dance, call the fes- tor of UNWLA contest for youth “Nature tival chairperson, Jullie Humeniuk, (410) and Us.” Entries submitted by winning 687-3465. contestants will be on display. Fee for admission is $10 per adult and $5 per ONGOING child. For information, please call Ulana HUNTER, N.Y.: The 1998 annual exhibi- Kobzar, (201) 438-1252, or Lida Kramarchuk, (973) 773-4548, no later tion of Ukrainian artists in the U.S. is than July 29. being held at the “Grazhda” Ukrainian Cultural Center. Taras Schumylowych will ADVANCE NOTICE be exhibiting four of his works: “Cape Sunday, August 23 Henry Lighthouse, 1784”; “Penfield Reef Lighthouse, 1871”; “U.S. Coast Guard LAC NEWCOMB, Quebec: A “Ukrainian Small Boat No. 30602;” and “Spring.” Day Celebration” on the occasion of the This exhibition will run through Sunday, seventh anniversary of Ukraine’s independ- September 6. ence will take place from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at St. John’s Ukrainian Camp. Various ASPEN, Colo.: A display of recent work games, sports and leisure programs will created by artist Larysa Martyniuk may be take place. All church organizations, viewed at the Aspen Fine Art Gallery, schools, youth groups, choirs, dance located at 410 E. Hyman Ave. For further ensembles and anyone interested is invited information please contact the gallery at to help organize or prepare their own pro- (970) 920-0044.

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At Soyuzivka: July 25-26

KERHONKSON, N.Y. – Songs of Ukraine will be in the spotlight at Soyuzivka, the upstate New York resort of the Ukrainian National Association, during the weekend of July 25-26. Taras Petrynenko of Hrono fame, will be visiting from Ukraine to provide the latest popular hits from Ukraine during the 8:30 p.m. concert on Saturday. Rounding out the ensemble of singers and musicians will be Tatiana Horobets and Andriy Solodenko. After the concert there will be a dance to music by the Zorepad band, beginning at about 10 p.m. For information about Soyuzivka accommodations, entertainment pro- grams, art exhibits and other special fea- tures, call (914) 626-5641. Taras Petrynenko