The Ukrainian Weekly 2011, No.14

www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE: • “Directed chaos” in Ukraine: Cui bono? – page 3 • Book review: “The Silence of Trees” – page 11. • “The Glory of Ukraine” comes to Omaha – page 18. THEPublished U by theKRAINIAN Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal Wnon-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXIX No. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 2011 $1/$2 in Ukraine Sviatoslav Shevchuk enthroned as leader of Ukrainian Catholics by Zenon Zawada With the election of Major Archbishop Kyiv Press Bureau Shevchuk, the Synod of Bishops decided to hand over the reins of the Church to KYIV – Bishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Ukraine’s post-Soviet generation, which the 40-year-old native of the Lviv Oblast secretly prayed and worshipped during town of Stryi who was apostolic adminis- the last decades of the Soviet Union, and trator of the eparchy of Buenos Aires, built the first churches and eparchies in Argentina, was enthroned as the major independent Ukraine. archbishop of Kyiv-Halych of the “I’m impressed with the selection of a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church at a young man because we need to orient grand, historic ceremony held on March ourselves towards the new generation,” 27 at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the said Yevhen Sverstiuk, 82, a Soviet-era Resurrection of Christ. dissident and chief editor of the Orthodox It was the first time in the Ukrainian newspaper Our Faith. Catholic Church’s history that its leader “We have people around us who carry was enthroned in Kyiv, on the Left Bank with them old habits, who have nothing of the Dnipro River, reflecting its remark- new to say, and repeat what they’ve able growth in Ukraine in the last decade. always said. But the Church is supposed It was also the first time in its history that to address different tendencies and dan- the outgoing patriarch witnessed his suc- gers of our time. And it’s clear that the cessor’s enthronement. youth re-orient themselves far better. It’s Taras Hrynchyshyn Newly enthroned Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. a good, solid initiative to truly refresh Eparchy voiced his distaste for selecting thinking, methods and orientation in the someone too young. world,” he added. Bishop Shevchuk’s election surprised The Church’s last two major archbish- not only Ukrainian Catholics throughout ops – Myroslav Lubachivsky and Lubomyr the world, but the major archbishop’s Husar – were born in Ukraine but spent closest relatives and even some of the most of their service in the Church in the synod’s 40 participating bishops. In their United States after fleeing the Soviet occu- view, his election was confirmation of the pation of the Halychyna region. Holy Spirit’s influence. Major Archbishop Shevchuk wasn’t “I am very happy that we selected who considered a leading candidate by Church we selected,” said Bishop Hlib Lonchyna, observers because of his relatively young the apostolic administrator of the age. Not only was he the youngest bishop exarchate of Great Britain, who was in the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, among the most often mentioned candi- but he’s the fourth youngest among the dates for the post. world’s 5,000-plus Catholic bishops, “It became very clear to us we selected Volodymyr Musyak according to the Catholic Hierarchy web- who people were putting forth as candi- A view of the service at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in site. dates, but we were truly selecting the one Kyiv during which Bishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk was enthroned as major arch- Indeed, prior to the synod, Bishop bishop of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. Emeritus Basil Losten of the Stamford (Continued on page 5) Shevchuk family of Stryi reflects on election of new Church leader by Taras Hrynchyshyn – to preside over Vsevolod’s ordination He ended up returning to Stryi precise- was a radio technician by profession, as a priest in Stryi. ly a week after the ordination, this time as having worked on the railroad and served Special to The Ukrainian Weekly That was two days before the Synod of major archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek- as the director of a small, local factory STRYI, Ukraine – “Don’t rub salt on a Bishops began in the Lviv suburb of Catholic Church (UGCC), to preside over before his retirement. Yet it’s the mother, wound,” muttered Yurii Shevchuk, paus- Briukhovychi on March 21, which the funeral of Bishop Julian Gbur, the first Vira, who commands the authority in the ing for a minute. He was responding to a changed the Shevchuk’s lives forever. bishop of the Stryi Eparchy, who died on family. question asking how was it for him and “You know how it is for us in our older March 24, a day after Bishop Shevchuk’s “That one’s a rector, that’s one’s a his wife, Vira, to send their second son, age,” Mr. Shevchuk added, reflecting on election as primate of the UGCC. director – and I’m over them!” she joked. Vsevolod, to serve as a priest across the having two sons living abroad. Indeed the The Shevchuk home – situated along a Vira Vasylivna Shevchuk still works as a teacher of music at a local school and ocean in Parma, Ohio. Shevchuk family was as surprised as any- road of single-family homes near the city plays the piano. She taught Sviatoslav to Their elder son, Bishop Sviatoslav one to learn their elder son, Sviatoslav, center – opened its doors to reporters on play the violin, which he mentioned to be Shevchuk, had returned about a week ear- was selected to lead the more than 5.5 the day of the funeral, offering insight among his hobbies. lier from Buenos Aires – where he led million Ukrainian Catholics around the into the new major archbishop’s youth. that country’s Ukrainian Catholic eparchy globe. The father, Yurii Ivanovych Shevchuk, (Continued on page 26) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 2011 No. 14 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS Ukraine set to take over Pope greets UGCC leader said. The fund says that Mr. Dershowitz’s involvement with the Kuchma legal team VATICAN CITY – During the lan- is beneficial due to his experience both Transneft oil product pipeline guage greetings of his general audience as an attorney for the defense and an on the morning of March 30, Pope by Vladimir Socor cally integrated oil company that would expert on criminal evidence. The website Benedict XVI, speaking in Ukrainian, include: the oil extraction company says that, during his almost 50-year Eurasia Daily Monitor greeted His Beatitude Sviatoslav Ukrnafta, the crude oil pipeline operator career Mr. Dershowitz has won numer- Shevchuk, recently elected as major On March 25 the Rivne Oblast’s eco- Ukrtransnafta, the oil product pipeline ous high-profile cases in the United archbishop of Kyiv-Halych, and the nomic court ruled that the state of operator Ukrnefteprodukt and the Poltava- States and elsewhere. His services have Ukraine, not Russia’s Transneft, is the accompanying bishops and faithful of the based Kremenchuk refinery (Ukraine’s been used by the heads of state and gov- rightful owner of the Samara [Russia] – Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, assur- largest), co-owned by Naftohaz and the ernments, United Nations figures, gover- West oil product pipeline’s section on ing them of his “constant prayer that the shareholders of Privat Group with 42 per- nors, members of the U.S. Congress and Ukrainian territory. Holy Trinity may bring abundance, and cent and 58 percent stakes, respectively business leaders. (Interfax-Ukraine) Ukraine’s State Prosecutor’s Office (Kommersant, March 24). confirm in peace and harmony the had brought this case before the Rivne The Dnipropetrovsk-based Privat beloved Ukrainian nation.” Addressing Chornovil’s son comments on probe court. The court found that the pipeline’s Group also controls the Halychyna and the new archbishop, the pontiff said, handover to Transneft during the 1990s Naftokhimik Prikarpattia refineries, “The Lord has called you to the service KYIV – National Deputy Taras had been unlawful. Accordingly, it located in Drohobych (Lviv Oblast) and and guidance of this noble Church, Chornovil said he believes that the ordered this asset to be transferred from Nadvirna (Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast), which is a part of the people who for Ukrainian Procurator General’s Office Transneft’s ownership into that of respectively, with a combined processing over a thousand years have received should be in charge of the investigation Ukraine’s State Property Fund, for further capacity of 6 million tons per year Baptism at Kyiv. I am sure that, illumi- into the death of his father, a former lead- disposition. (Interfax-Ukraine, January 18). The cur- nated by the work of the Holy Spirit, you er of Narodnyi Rukh, Vyacheslav The court issued a similar ruling rent chairman of Ukrtransnafta, will preside over your Church, guiding Chornovil. “I believe that, with the maxi- regarding a short stretch of a decommis- Oleksandr Lazorko, was formerly a her in faith in Jesus Christ in accordance mum possible involvement of the police, sioned oil product pipeline, Grozny- Privat refinery manager. with her own tradition and spirituality, in it is necessary for this matter to be over- Armavir [Russia]-Trudova [Ukraine], on The Rivne Oblast’s economic court is communion with the See of Peter which seen and administered by the Procurator Ukrainian territory. a first-instance court. In Moscow, is the visible bond of that unity for which General’s Office,” he told Interfax- The pipelines thus transferred into Transneft has announced that it will so many of her children have not hesitat- Ukraine on March 23. Mr.

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