UGCC seminary rectors are working out the "Program of evangelization and missionary education in the UGCC"

On May 12-14, 2009, in Lviv on the premises of the international charitable fund Caritas Ukraine (Ozarkevycha St., 4), the European meeting of rectors of the seminaries of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church will be held. The task of the meeting, according to the decision of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC, will be to work on a document called "Program of evangelization and missionary education in the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church." The meeting will take place at the initiative of Bishop Ken (Nowakowski), head of the Patriarchal Commission on Priestly Formation in Seminaries of the UGCC. The rectors of eparchial and monastic seminaries and houses of formation of the UGCC which operate on the European continent will take part. At the beginning of April the seminary rectors will obtain a working version of the program of evangelization and missionary education, which they will consequently discuss during the meeting. The results of three days of work will be passed as resolutions and the prepared draft of the document will be accepted for consideration and confirmation at the annual Patriarchal Synod of Bishops of the UGCC, which will take place in Lviv-Bryukhovychi from November 29 to December 9. The meeting in Lviv is a continuation of regional meetings which are regularly conducted by the Patriarch Commission on Priestly Formation in Seminaries. On February 4-6, 2009, a similar meeting of rectors and spiritual directors of the Ukrainian Catholic seminaries of North and South America took place in Brazil.

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Photo: The meeting of rectors of seminaries with His Beatitude Lubomyr in 2006