CBOEOAAibSvOBODA випас УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОАІННПК ЧШВР' ОЯШАІМІАН втч rainioENGUSH-LANGUAGnE WEEKL Y EDlTlOWeeN k У VOL. LXXXVI. NO. ЙЮ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. DECEMBER 9.1979 І , ' SCENTS. a Stt Archbishop Lubachivsky installed as metropolitan for U.S. Ukrainian Catholics PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Archbi– but also that they obey you and as dear shop Myroslav J. Lubachivsky was sons relate themselves to you." installed on Tuesday, December 4, as in his first homily as the head of the the fourth metropolitan for Ukrainian Ukrainian. Catholic Church in the Catholics in the United States. United States, Archbishop Lubachiv– The ceremony, presided over by sky also underlined the necessity of Archbishop Jean Jadot, the apostolic obedience. delegate, was held at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the immaculate "Thusly, listen to the vicar of Christ Conception. Archbishop Lubachivsky on earth, who in the bull elevating my was raised to the rank of bishop by Pope humble person to the metropolitan John Paul 11 in a historic ceremony at archbishopric of Philadelphia for the Sistine Chapel on November 12. Ukrainian Catholics in the United Archbishop Jadot read the papal bull States, appeals to you all, that in matters of religion you obey me as appointing Archbishop Lubachiysky;as; metropolitan in the English language.' loving children obey their parents and while Msgr. Stephen Sulyk read the in so doing help me carry the heavy Ukrainian-language version. burden which was given to me by the Referring to the death of Archbi– savior, Jesus Christ," said Archbishop shop-Metroplitan Joseph Schmondiuk Lubachivsky. "Therefore, let us subject in December 1978. the papal hull stated: ourselves to the law of God, so that "we deemed it well to appoint you in his cooperating with it. we may attain the place, you who have distinguished goal to which the Lord God has called yourself not only in learning, but also in us, that is to union with our God and piety, expeditiousness, experience." limitless happiness with him and in him The papal bull also "paternally" in heaven." appealed to the all priests and faithful Citing the biblical story of Jesus Archbishop Metropolitan Myroslav Lubachivsky, seated center, takes his place under the jurisdiction of Archbishop Christ evicting the merchants from the between Bishop Jaroslav Gabro (left) and Bishop Basil Losten (right) after his Lubachivsky "to not only sincerely temple. Archbishop Lubachivsky casti– installation as head of the Ukrainian Catholic archeparchy of Philadelphia. receive you as their father and pastor. (C onlinui'd on page 13) Karavanskys, after stay in vienna, London, to arrive in U.S. JERSEY C1TY. N.J. - Sviatoslav University to deliver three lectures ori a Karavansky and his wife, Nina Stroka– Ukrainian theme, said that freedom tova Karuvanska. for the first time met does not exist in the Soviet Union. with Western correspondents at the The Associated Press reporter also Concordia in vienna. Austria, on told The Weekly that Mr. Karavansky Monday. December 3, and told rcpor– said that he wants to "destroy certain ters of the grim situation in Ukraine, myths about the Soviet Union thai were The Ukrainian Weekly learned. disseminated by pro-Soviet correspon– The Karavanskys arrived in vienna dents in the West. at 11 a.m. (5 a.m. EST). Friday. Novem– The AP added that Mr. Karavansky bcr 30. on board an Aeroflot flight from made reference to the Ukrainian Public Moscow. Despite denials by the lsraeli Group to Promote the implementation Consulate General in New York, Mr. of the Helsinki Accords only in passing. Karavansky confirmed at the press Mrs. Karavansky. a microbiologist and conference that the couple was allowed a member of the American Association to immigrate to the West on the basis of of Microbiologists. is one of the 10 a visa to lsrael. founding members of the Ukrainian The Weekly learned from the Associ– Helsinki group in Kiev. ated Press office in vienna that Mr. Reuters reported that Mr. Karavan– Karavansky spoke through a translator. sky called on the West to demand that Mrs. Karavansky did not speak, said the Soviet government make known the the AP reporter. official number of political prisoners in Nina Strokatova Karavansky Sviatoslav Karavansky Also arriving with them was Yuri the Soviet Union. He said that the Belov. a Russian dissident. figure, which he feels is close to 5.000. is arc frequently designated by the offi– national and the international Р.Е N. Mr. Karavansky. a political prisoner a state secret. cials as being insane. Club. for more than a quarter of a century, Mr. Karavansky said that the Soviet Soon after their press conference, the Bohdan Wynnyczok, director of the told Western reporters that the nation– government has repeatedly denied the Karavanskys departed for London, Ukrainian National information Ser– alities question in the Soviet Union has existence of political prisoners because England, where they will remain for a vice, told The Weekly that the couple's not vet been settled. The Weekly was it labels all inmates as criminals. few days before flying to the United first stop in the United States will be in told. Mr. Karavansky, who recently Reuters reported that Mr. Belov States. They were invited to England by Washington, D.C. He said that their received an invitation, from Harvard added that the prisoners of conscience the English sections of Amnesty inter– (Continued on page 3) 2^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. DECEMBER 9. 1979 ^^.^N0. 2KO Party of the Soviet Union, care of From Ukraine... Leonid Brezhnev, and to the prosecutor The Rev. Romaniuk pleads for transfer general of the USSR. R. Rudenko. NEW YORK, NY. - Trials are 0 The information Bulletin of the KESTON. England. The Rev. being"readied in the cases of eight committee on the use of psychiatry for vasyl Romaniuk. a Ukrainian Ortho– Ukrainiajis..'arrested this year and political purposes, a Moscow-based dox priest and member of Helsinki charged 'with "anti-Soviet agitation and group in Kiev, is suffering from the samvydav publication, reports in its extremely cold climate in his place of propaganda," reported the press service July 22 issue that Borys Kovhar re- of the Wktainian Supreme Liberation exile - the settlement Sangar in Ya– mains in a psykhushka. Kovhar was kutia. reported Keston News Service. Council'^pifoad). born in 1932 and was arrested in 1972 The efjhtpolitical prisoners are: Oles After seven years of imprisonment, on charges of "anti-Soviet agitation and the Rev. Romaniuk suffers from a Berdnyfc Yuriy Lytvyn, Petro and propaganda." Kovhar was a Kiev jour– vasyl ,SicWft) and vasyl Striltsiv, mem– severe form of hemorrhoids, rheumat– nalist who cooperated with the KGB ism. high blood pressure and a heart bers of the Kiev Helsinki group; Yuriy until 1972, when he wrote an open letter Badzio, a historian and philologist; ailment. He is petitioning for his place about his activity with the secret police. of exile to be changed to a warmer Mykola Horbal. a musician and music At first, he was to be tried, but later he teachers: and Petro Rozumny. climate. This information has reached was found to be incapable of being held Keston College from a samvydav Berdnyk. P. Sichko, Striltsiv and responsible for his acts and was con- source, but is not signed or dated. Horbal have previously been sentenced fined to the Dnipropetrovske psy– to long terms of imprisonment. Keston College comments that khushka. in 1976 he was transferred to Sangar. situated on the banks of the The press service also'reported the the Sychovka psychiatric hospital. Lena River abour 240 kilometers (150 following news. ' Anatoliy Lupynis. a former Kiev miles) northwest of Yakutsk, at 64 The Rev. vasyl Romaniuk ' Amnesty international has called University student born in 1940, was latitude it is outside the Arctic Circle. upon its branches and various organiza– transferred to a general psychiatric However, the climate in this part of for its valuable natural resources, but it tions to protest against the Soviet hospital. Lupynis was imprisoned in Siberia is extremely cold and inhospi– is finding it very difficult to attract practice of holding closed trials. Soviet Mordovian camps in 1956-1967 for his table. workers there because of the climate, law states that open trials are the rule in protests against the Russification of Yakutia is one of the areas which the despite the fact that salaries here are far all cases except those involving go– Ukraine, in 1971 he was rearrested for Soviet government is trying to develop higher than the national average. vernment secrets or sex crimes, never– reading poems near the Shevchenko theless, Soviet authorities try political monument in Kiev on May 22. Since prisoners behind closed doors. Amnesty that time he was confined in the Serbsky Orthodox believers lose church international urged that protests institute where he was declared men- KESTON. England. - An Orthodox unusually short time, to the amazement against this practice be addressed to the tally ill and later in the Dnipropetrovske Central Committee of the Communist church in the town of Rechitsa, Byclo– of the town's building organizations. and Taharsk psychiatric hospitals. russia, has been forcibly taken away ' victor Rafalsky. former director of from believers by the local authorities, However, when the believers went to a school in Kalusha. ivano-Frankivske according to an undated letter from the church on September 1. they found KGB raids Baptists oblast, also spent some time in the parishioners which has just reached it locked. A notice had been posted by Dnipropetrovske psykhushka. He was Keston College. the city fire inspector, stating that the in Kishinev arrested in the 1956s for political building had been closed because of The parish council of the Church of gross violation of fire regulations.