Eparchy of Philadelphia (Ukrainian)
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
The Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia is the metropolitan see of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the United States, established in 1913 and raised to a metropolitan archeparchy in 1958. Its current metropolitan archbishop is Borys Gudziak, installed in 2019.
The see
- Tradition
- Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
- Erected
- 1913
- Patron
- Immaculate Conception
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 13,051
- Population
- 4,195,425
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.3%
- Priests
- 53
- Catholics per priest
- 246
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Archbishop
- Borys Gudziak
- Born
- 24 November 1960
- Birthplace
- Syracuse
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception stands in Philadelphia, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Philadelphia (Ukrainian)
A suffragan of Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
The sees of this province:
- Eparchy of Saint Josaphat in Parma (Ukrainian)Parma
- Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Chicago (Ukrainian)Chicago
- Eparchy of Stamford (Ukrainian)Stamford
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Serving the Eastern United States, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia is an ecclesiastical territory of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church with its episcopal see at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It ranks as a metropolitan see, and its ecclesiastical province includes three suffragan eparchies.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.