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Cathedral Of The Nativity Of The Mother Of God (Toronto)
The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother of God is the cathedral church of the Exarchate of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto, located on Shaw Street in Toronto, Canada. Ministering to members of the Slovak Byzantine Catholic Church exarchate, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church. History The Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in Toronto for Slovaks of the Eastern Rite was established in October 1951. L. Minya was appointed the first pastor of the newly formed church. In 1952, Michael Rusnak was appointed as a pastor of the church. It was during this time that the congregation acquired the B'Nai Israel Synagogue on Shaw Street in Toronto and converted it to a church. In 2006, Bishop John Pazak moved the tabernacle and the antimension from the Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Markham to the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God, elevating the church to a Cathedral. In 2022, Pope Francis lowered the Eparchy of Saints ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathedral Of The Transfiguration (Markham, Ontario)
The Cathedral of the Transfiguration is a Catholic Church, Catholic former cathedral and current Parish (Catholic Church), parish of the Transfiguration of Jesus, Transfiguration of Jesus Christ, first of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church and currently of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. The cathedral, in the Canadian city of Markham just north of Toronto, is the centrepiece and namesake of Cathedraltown near Victoria Square, Ontario, Victoria Square, an unincorporated hamlet. History The cathedral is on land once part of Romandale Farms Inc., founded by the late Stephen Boleslav Roman, Stephen B. Roman, a leading breeder and exhibitor of Holstein cows and the founder of Denison Mines, Denison Mines Limited, a mining company. Mr. Roman, who arrived in Canada in 1937 from his native Slovakia, donated the land for the cathedral, which "he built as a beacon of religious freedom" for his fellow Slavs then living under Soviet oppression. Mr. Roman modelled the cathedral on the churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathedrals In Canada
This is a list of cathedrals in Canada, that is, seats of bishops in episcopal polity, episcopal denominations, including the Catholic Church, Anglican Church of Canada, Eastern Orthodox Churches and the Armenian Apostolic Church. Alberta *St. Mary's Cathedral (Calgary), St. Mary's Cathedral, in Calgary (Catholic Church in Canada, Roman Catholic) *Cathedral Church of the Redeemer, in Calgary (Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican) *All Saints' Anglican Cathedral (Edmonton), All Saints' Anglican Cathedral in Edmonton (Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican) *All Saints' Orthodox Cathedral (Edmonton), All Saints' Orthodox Cathedral in Edmonton (Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of North & South America & the British Isles) *St. Barbara's Cathedral (Edmonton), St. Barbara's Cathedral in Edmonton (Patriarchial Parishes in Canada, Russian Orthodox Church in Canada) *St. Joseph's Basilica, Edmonton, St. Joseph's Basilica, in Edmonton (Catholic Church in Canada, Roman Catholic) *St. Josaphat's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecclesiastical Province
An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction Jurisdiction (from Latin 'law' + 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice. In federations like the United States, areas of jurisdiction apply to local, state, and federal levels. Jur ... in Christianity, Christian Churches with traditional hierarchical structure, including Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity. In general, an ecclesiastical province consists of several diocese, dioceses (or eparchy, eparchies), one of them being the archdiocese (or archeparchy), headed by a metropolitan bishop or archbishop who has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over all other bishops of the province. In the Greco-Roman world, ''ecclesia'' ( grc, ἐκκλησία; la, ecclesia) was used to refer to a lawful assembly, or a called legislative body. As early as Pythagoras, the word took on the additional meaning of a community with shared beliefs. This is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church Of Pittsburgh
The Byzantine Catholic Metropolis of Pittsburgh ( la, Pittsburgensis ritus byzantini) is a metropolitan province for Eastern Catholics of the Byzantine Rite in the United States of America, with specific jurisdiction over several communities that originated (in terms of their ancestry) from the regions of Carpathian Ruthenia, Slovakia, Hungary and former Yugoslavia. Its membership thus includes several Byzantine Catholic groups, mainly among Rusyn Americans, Slovak Americans, Hungarian Americans, and Croatian Americans. Since 2022, the Exarchate of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto in Canada has also been under the provincial jurisdiction the Metropolis of Pittsburgh rather than the Slovak Greek Catholic Church. Within the ecclesiastical structure of Eastern Catholic Churches, it is classified as part of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church, that does not have an unified organization. Organization The Metropolia, which is structured as an ecclesiastical province, itself ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovak Greek Catholic Church
The Slovak Greek Catholic Church ( Slovak: ''Gréckokatolícka cirkev na Slovensku'', "Greek-Catholic Church in Slovakia"; la, Ecclesia Graeco Catholica Slovacica), or Slovak Byzantine Catholic Church, is a metropolitan ''sui iuris'' Eastern Catholic particular church in full communion with the Catholic Church and the Pope of Rome. Its liturgical rite is the Byzantine Rite. In 2008 in Slovakia alone, the Slovak Greek Catholic Church had some 350,000 faithful, 374 priests and 254 parishes. In 2017, the Catholic Church counted 207,320 Slovak Greek Catholics worldwide, representing roughly one percent of all Eastern Catholics. History Since the unanimous acceptance of the Union of Uzhhorod on the territory that includes present day eastern Slovakia in 1646, the history of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church was intertwined with that of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church for a period of several centuries. At the end of World War I, most Greek Catholic Ruthenians and Slovaks were inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovak Catholic Exarchate Of Saints Cyril And Methodius Of Toronto
The Exarchate of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto ( la, Exarchatus Sanctorum Cyrilli et Methodii Torontini ritus Byzantini, Slovak: ''Exarchát svätých Cyrila a Metoda byzantského obradu v Toronte'') is a ecclesiastical territory or exarchate serving Slovak Greek Catholic Church of the Catholic Church in Canada. Its territory extends over the whole territory of Canada. In 2022, Pope Francis transferred the jurisdiction of the exarchate from the Slovak Greek Catholic Church to the Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh, a ecclesiastical province allocated to the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church, changing the territory's status from eparchy to exarchate at the same time. History Since the end of the 19th century, several Eastern Catholic ethnic groups, including Slavs of the Byzantine Rite, started to arrive in Canada. Among them, there were Byzantine Catholics from Slovakia, who came under jurisdiction of common exarchates, and later eparchies, that were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pope Francis
Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. Francis is the first pope to be a member of the Society of Jesus, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside Europe since Gregory III, a Syrian who reigned in the 8th century. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bergoglio worked for a time as a bouncer and a janitor as a young man before training to be a chemist and working as a technician in a food science laboratory. After recovering from a severe illness, he was inspired to join the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1958. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969, and from 1973 to 1979 was the Jesuit provincial superior in Argentina. He became the archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antimins
The antimins (from the Greek , ''Antimension'': "instead of the table"), is one of the most important furnishings of the altar in many Eastern Christian liturgical traditions. It is a rectangular piece of cloth of either linen or silk, typically decorated with representations of the Descent of Christ from the Cross, the Four Evangelists, and inscriptions related to the Passion. A small relic of a martyr is sewn into it. In the Western Rite, the altar stone, serves a similar function. It is not permitted to celebrate the Divine Liturgy without an antimins. The antimins is kept folded in the centre of the Holy Table (altar) and is unfolded only during the Divine Liturgy at the dismissal of the catechumens the end of the Liturgy, the antimins is folded in thirds, and then in thirds again, so that when it is unfolded the creases form a cross (see photo, right). When folded, the antimins sits in the centre of another, slightly larger cloth called the ''eileton'' (Greek: { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario
Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Canada, it is Canada's most populous province, with 38.3 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec). Ontario is Canada's fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is Ontario's provincial capital. Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east and northeast, and to the south by the U.S. states of (from west to east) Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Almost all of Ontario's border with the United States f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stephen Pazak
John Stephen Pazak, Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, C.Ss.R. (born August 13, 1946 in Gary, Indiana) is an American-born member of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, commonly known as the Redemptorists, who served as an eparch of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church. He served as the Eparch of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Holy Protection of Mary Phoenix, Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of the Holy Protection of Mary, which is based in Phoenix, Arizona from July 2016 until his retirement in 2021. Life Family Pazak was born in Gary, Indiana, on August 13, 1946, to Stephen Pazak, an American of Ruthenian descent, and Johanna Hennessy, who was of Irish descent, both members of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church. Religious life Pazak was admitted to the novitiate of the Canadian ecclesiastical province, Province of the Redemptorists at Yorkton, Saskatchewan, on September 14, 1965. He studied at the Redemptorist seminary, St. Alphonsus College, in Suffield, Connectic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Rusnak
Michael Rusnak, C.Ss.R., (21 August 1921 – 16 January 2003) was an American-born member of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, commonly known as the Redemptorist Fathers, who was appointed Eparch of the Slovak Catholic Eparchy of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto by Pope John Paul II in 1980. Life Born in 1921 in Beaverdale, Pennsylvania, Rusnak entered the Redemptorists in 1941 and professed religious vows as a member of the Congregation on August 2, 1942. He was ordained a priest on July 4, 1949 by Pavel Peter Gojdič, O.S.B.M., who was later declared a martyr and beatified by the Catholic Church. On August 25, 1964, he was made was Auxiliary Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Toronto and titular bishop of Tzernicus.''Le Petit Episcopologe'', Issue 162, Number 13,905 Rusnak took part in the third and fourth sessions of the Second Vatican Council. Pope John Paul II appointed him Eparch Eparchy ( gr, ἐπαρχία, la, eparchía / ''overlordsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
