Ukrainian Episcopal Conference Explained

The Catholic bishops of Ukraine divide into 2 different conferences. There is the Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops in Ukraine (Ukrainian: Конференція Римо-Католицьких Єпископів України, Latin: Conferentia episcoporum Ucrainae) and there is the Synod of Bishops of Ukrainian Catholic Church (Byzantine rite) (Latin: Synod Ecclesiae Ucrainae Catholic (bycantini)).

Both conferences are a member of the Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe.

The Synod

President of the Ukrainian Catholic Church is His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Archbishop and Metropolitan of Kyiv in Ukraine.

Bureau

President: Vitalii Skomarovskyi, Diocesan Bishop of Diocese of Lutsk.^[1]

Vitalii Kryvytskyi is the Vice President, and Eduard Kava is the Secretary.

Secretaries and commissions

• Commission for Family Marian Buczek, coadjutor bishop of Lviv
• Commission for religious women's orders, Leon Malyi, Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv
• Commission for priestly vocation, Jan Purwinski, Emeritus Bishop of Kyiv and Zhytomyr
• Commission for charitable and philanthropic support, Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk, OFM, Auxiliary Bishop of Kyiv and Zhytomyr
• Commission for Public Relations and Mass Media, Vitalii Skomarovskyi, Auxiliary Bishop of Kyiv and Zhytomyr
• Commission for Catechesis, Leon Dubrawski, OFM, Bishop of Kamjanets-Podilskyi
• Commission for Religious Order of men, Stanislaw Padewski, OFM Cap, Emeritus Bishop of Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia
• Commission on Environment and Tourism, Antal Majnek, OFM, Bishop of Mukachevo
• Commission for the faith, Bronislaw Bernacki, Bishop of Odesa and Simferopol

External links

• http://www.rkc.lviv.ua/index.php
• http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/conference/214.htm
• http://ecclesia-catholica.org.ua/

Notes and References

1. Web site: КОНФЕРЕНЦІЯ ЄПИСКОПІВ – Римсько-Католицька Церква в Україні . 2024-08-21 . uk.