New York, NY (UCCA) - The funeral of the former
head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) took place on June 5,
2017 at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in
Kyiv. His Beatitude, Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, had served as the titular
head of more than 4.5 million faithful from 2001 to 2011.
Under his
leadership, the UGCC, the largest of the sui iuris Eastern Catholic
Churches, transferred its Metropolitanate seat from Lviv to Kyiv, and
conducted the largest number of synods in the church’s history. In 2005,
Cardinal Husar became the first Ukrainian Greek Catholic ever to
participate in a papal conclave convened to elect a new pope.
The
Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA), the nation’s largest
representative body of Americans of Ukrainian descent, has issued a statement expressing its deep sorrow at the passing of a fellow
Ukrainian American, a unique spiritual leader and one of the most
respected public intellectuals ever to come from Ukraine.
In
the statement, the UCCA recalled His Beatitude’s “American roots,” from
a youth spent at Ukrainian American campgrounds, to his days as a
community pastor in the Catskills, and his repeated visits as Bishop,
Archbishop and eventually Patriarch of Ukrainian Catholics around the
world.
Most notably, he helped the UCCA champion for a National Monument
dedicated to the victims of the Holodomor Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of
1932–1933 in Washington D.C., and at the UCCA’s 19th Congress of
Ukrainians of America, representing diaspora organizations and
leadership from across the United States, Cardinal Husar called upon the
delegates and guests to work towards uniting throughout his adopted
homeland, remarking that, "The years have shown us that in unity there
is strength."
May His Memory Be Eternal!
Source: The
Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA)
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