Toronto's Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy Subjected to Major Reassignments

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 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Kuchma chats with Tkachenko he commented. In his opinion, the

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