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Univ Holy Dormition Lavra of the Studite Rule

International academic online conference dedicated to the 155th anniversary of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky’s birth

under the patronage of the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk

September 26, Saturday

2.15 pm-2.30 pm. Welcoming speech Welcoming the conference participants by the Superior of the Univ Holy Dormition Lavra of the Studite Rule, Hieromonk Jona Maksim.

2.30 pm-2.35 pm. Organizational matters Dr Yuriy Skira (Ukrainian Catholic )

Discussion panel ‘Identity and family of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky’ 2.35 pm-3.05 pm. D-r Natalia Zabolotna (National V. I. Vernadsky Library of ) On the of service of the Sheptytskys: a rare printed diploma of bishop Varlaam Sheptytsky 3.05 pm-3.15 pm. Questions 3.15-3.45. Dr hab. Magdalena Nowak (University of Gdansk) Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and his brothers on the threshold of World War I, through the prism of family correspondence 3.45 pm-3.55 pm. Questions 3.55 pm-4.25 pm. Dr Hanna Dydyk-Meush (I. Krypyakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National of Sciences of Ukraine) The art of preaching from non-canonical Gospel texts of the late XVIth – the first half of the XVIIth century and up to the first third of the XXth c.: tradition and modern style of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky’s lamguage 4.25 pm-4.40 pm. Questions 4.40 pm-5.10 pm. Dr hab. Andrzej Szeptycki () The Sheptytskys: contemporaneity and the role of the Metropolitan’s heritage 5.10 pm-5.20 pm. Questions

September 27, Sunday

Discussion panel ‘Identity and family of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky’

2.00 pm-2.30 pm. Dr Oksana Surmach ( National University of ) The role of social care of the Church in the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky’s activity 2.30 pm-2.40 pm. Questions 2.40 pm-3.10 pm Dr Viktoriya Chornopyska ( National University) Unionistic activity of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky 3.10 pm-3.20 pm. Questions 3.20 pm-3.50 pm Dr Anatoliy Babynskyi (Ukrainian Catholic University) Diaspora and the idea of the patriarchate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky’s epoch 3.50 pm-4.00 pm. Questions 4.00 pm -4.30 pm. Hieromonk Polikarp Martseliuk, order of St. Basil the Great (Mission Postulation Centre of Beautification and Canonization of the Saints of the UGCC) From the Pastoral Epistle to the implementation of the model of widow-orphan fund by Righteous Kyr Andrey Sheptytsky 2.30 pm-2.40 pm. Questions 4.40 pm-5.10 pm. D-r Zinoviy Svereda (independent political and economic analyst) Historical experience of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky for modern reforms 5.10 pm-5.20 pm. Questions

September 28, Monday

Discussion panel ‘World War II and the challenges of totalitarianism’

2.00 pm-2.30 pm. Dr Liliana Hentosh (Ivan Franko National ) Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and September of 1939: events and challenges 2.30 pm-2.40 pm. Questions 2.40 pm-3.10 pm. Dr Yuriy Skira (Ukrainian Catholic University) The unknown Holocaust: Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi and Hieromonk John Peters 3.10 pm-3.20 pm. Questions 3.20 pm-3.50 pm. Rev. Dr Athanasius McVay (Edmonton eparchy of the UGCC) Vatican archives and Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky: findings and prospects 3.50 pm-4.00 pm. Questions 4.00 pm-4.30 pm. Colette Hartwich (development assistance expert for the government of Luxemburg) Metropolitan Archbishop Andrei Sheptytskyi and The Myth of Ukrainian Antisemitism 4.30 pm-4.40 pm. Questions

September 29, Tuesday

Discussion panel ‘Cultural heritage of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky’

5.00 pm-5.30 pm. Dr Ihor Medvid (Lviv Ivan Franko National Museum Literary and Memorial Museum) Ivan Franko as seen by the heads of the Greek Catholic Church: comparative analysis of the standpoints of Metropolitan and Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky 5.30 pm-5.40 pm. Questions 5.40 pm-6.10 pm. Very Rev. Dr Ivan Datsko (Ukrainian Catholic University) Yosyf Slipyi – the follower of the theological ideas of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky 6.10 pm-6.20 pm. Questions 6.20 pm-6.50 pm. Very Rev. Dr Andriy Chirovsky (Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies) Why does Metropolitan Andrey remain so mysterious for us? The role of mystic spirituality as the basis for all the activity of the righteous Metropolitan 6.50 pm-7.00 pm. Questions 7.00 pm-7.40 pm. Myroslav Marynovych (Ukrainian Catholic University) Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky: Christian solutions to eternal problems 7.40 pm-7.50 pm. Questions

September 30, Wednesday

11.00 am-00.00 pm. Presentation of the book ‘I am even ready to sacrifice my life for you …’: works by the Righteous Among the Nations, hieromonk Danyyil (Tymchyna) / Compiled by Yu. Skira. – Lviv: Svichado, 2020.

Presentation participants: Bohdan Troyanovskyi Yuriy Skira Hanna Dydyk-Meush

The works by the Righteous Among the Nations, hieromonk Danyyil (Dmytro Tymchyna, 1900-1972) who kept hiding Jewish children during the German occupation upon the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky’s commission in the orphanage at the Univ Holy Dormition Lavra are presented for the first time. The documents provided in the book are kept in the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in the city of Lviv, in the archive of the Univ Holy Dormition Lavra of the Studite Rule, in the archive of the Postulation Centre of the Monasteries of the Studite Rule, in Lviv V. Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine. They reflect the world outlook and the inner world of the individual who risked his own life and the life of his co- monks in the monastery to save Jewish children during the years of the Holocaust.

SPEAKERS

Myroslav Marynovych / vice- on appointment and mission / Ukrainian Catholic University (Ukraine) Nataliya Zabolotna / senior research fellow / National V. I. Vernadsky Library of Ukraine (Ukraine) Magdalena Nowak / / University of Gdansk () Hanna Dydyk-Meush / senior research fellow / I. Krypyakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Ukraine) Andrzej Szeptycki / professor / University of Warsaw (Poland) Ihor Medvid / deputy director of Lviv Ivan Franko National Literary and Memorial Museum (Ukraine) Fr Ivan Datsko / president / Institute of Ecumenical Studies / Ukrainian Catholic University (Ukraine) Oksana Surmach / associate professor / Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine) Viktoriya Chornopyska / associate professor / Lviv Polytechnic National University (Ukraine) Anatoliy Babynskyi / researcher / Ukrainian Catholic University (Ukraine) Hieromonk Polikarp Martseliuk, order of St. Basil the Great / head of the Mission Postulation Centre of Beautification and Canonization of the Saints of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (Ukraine) Zinoviy Svereda / independent political and economic analyst (Ukraine) Liliana Hentosh / senior research fellow / Institute of Historical Studies / Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine) Yuriy Skira / project and program manager / Centre of Ukrainian-Polish-Slovak Frontier Studies / Ukrainian Catholic University (Ukraine) Fr. Athanasius McVay / researcher / Edmonton eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (Canada) Fr. Andriy Chirovsky / founder and professor / Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies / University of St. Michael’s College of the University of Toronto (Canada) Colette Hartwich / Development assistance expert for the government of Luxemburg / Berlin ()

International academic online conference dedicated to the 155th anniversary of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky’s birth

under the patronage of the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk

CONCEPT AND IMPLEMENTATION Yuriy Skira / Ukraine

DESIGN, PROMOTION, BROADCAST

Zlatoslava Skira / Ukraine

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