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- The Remarkable Life of Lubomyr Husar 05 June 2017 12:28 How does it happen that a child growing up in eastern Galicia among Ukrainians, Poles, Moldovans, Germans, Austrians, Jews, Roma, and Armenians dodges Nazi death squads and the Red Army, learns first-hand what it means to be a “displaced person” in occupied Austria, emigrates to the United...
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- Presidential family paid respect to Lubomyr (Husar) 05 June 2017 11:29 President Petro Poroshenko and his wife Marina Poroshenko paid the last tribute to the former head of the UGCC Cardinal Lubomyr (Husar). The ceremony of paying tribute to His Beatitude Liubomyr is being currently held in the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv. ...
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- Head of UGCC on Day of Pentecost: “His Beatitude Lubomyr is a gift of Holy Spirit to Ukrainian people” 05 June 2017 11:21 Lubomyr is passing away and, yet, being closer and more reachable to all of us. Tomorrow we will put his relics into the crypt of this Cathedral, and this crypt will be open 24 hours. Each of us in the moments of uncertainty and need will have an opportunity to come and pray together with Lubomyr. Today,...
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- Tens thousands of Lviv residents paid a last tribute to Lubomyr (Husar) 04 June 2017 09:22 On June 3, a mournful procession was held through the streets of Lviv. Tens of thousands of Lviv residents accompanied the coffin with the body Lubomyr (Husar) from the Cathedral of St. George to the Church of St Michael the Archangel. His Beatitude Sviatoslav compared the last travel of Lubomyr by...
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- UCC Mourns the Passing of His Beatitude Lubomyr Husar 02 June 2017 12:54 June 1, 2017. OTTAWA. The Ukrainian Canadian community joins Ukrainians around the world in mourning the passing of His Beatitude Lubomyr Husar, former Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Cardinal Lubomyr Husar passed away on May 31. He was 85. ...
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- Church that suffered under Soviets and rebounded loses its ‘sage’ 02 June 2017 12:48 Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, the former head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, died on Wednesday at the age of 84 after having inherited a church "on its knees" in the post-Soviet period and leading it through a renaissance. Eerily reminiscent of St. Nicholas, the prototype for Santa Claus, Husar...
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- Pope sends condolences for death of Cardinal Husar 02 June 2017 12:36 Pope Francis has sent a telegram his condolences on the death of His Beatitude, Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, Major Archbishop emeritus of Kyiv-Halyč. The telegram is addressed to Major Archbishop Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), Cardinal Husar’s successor as head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The...
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- "Following his order, by the calling of the heart we must continue to fight for Ukraine, for peace, for love," the President of Ukraine 02 June 2017 12:32 I am sincerely grieving together with all the faithful of the UGCC and the whole Ukraine. I express deep respect to this bright personality, true hero, who courageously proclaimed Lord's word to the Ukrainians during two centuries at the turn of two millennia....
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- "Lubomyr loved peace," recalls His Beatitude Sviatoslav 02 June 2017 12:07 On June 1, at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ His Beatitude Sviatoslav, Father and Head of the UGCC, made an official announcement on the occasion of death of His Beatitude Lubomyr (Husar). During the conversation with the representatives of mass media the Primate of the...
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