The Catholic bishops of Ukraine divide into 2 different conferences. There is the Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops in Ukraine (
Ukrainian: Конференція Римо-Католицьких Єпископів України,
Latin
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: Conferentia episcoporum Ucrainae) and there is the Synod of Bishops of
Ukrainian Catholic Church Ukrainian Catholic Church may refer to:
* Latin Church in Ukraine
* Greek Catholic Churches (Eastern Catholic communities of the Byzantine Rite, centered in Ukraine, in communion with the Church of Rome)
** Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church
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Byzantine rite) (
Latin
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: Synod Ecclesiae Ucrainae Catholic (bycantini)).
Both conferences are a member of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences.
The Synod
President of the Ukrainian Catholic Church is His Beatitude
Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Archbishop and Metropolitan of Kiev in Ukraine.
The Conference of Roman Catholic bishops in Ukraine
Bureau
President:
Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki, Archbishop of Lviv
Vice President and Secretary of the Commission for Liturgy and sacred art:
Markijan Trofimiak, Bishop of Lutsk
Secretaries and commissions
* Commission for Family
Marian Buczek, coadjutor bishop of Lviv
* Commission for religious women's orders,
Leon Maly, Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv
* Commission for priestly vocation,
Jan Purwinski, Emeritus Bishop of Kyiv and Zhytomyr
* Commission for charitable and philanthropic support,
Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk,
OFM, Auxiliary Bishop of Kyiv and Zhytomyr
* Commission for Public Relations and Mass Media,
Vitaliy Skomarovskyi, Auxiliary Bishop of Kyiv and Zhytomyr
* Commission for Catechesis,
Leon Dubrawski,
OFM, Bishop of Kamjanets-Podilsky
* Commission for Religious Order of men,
Stanislaw Padewski,
OFM Cap
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, Emeritus Bishop of Kharkiv and Zaporizhia
* Commission on Environment and Tourism,
Antal Majnek,
OFM, Bishop of Mukacheve
* Commission for the faith,
Bronislaw Bernacki, Bishop of Odessa and Simferopol
References
External links
* http://www.rkc.lviv.ua/index.php
* http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/conference/214.htm
* http://ecclesia-catholica.org.ua/
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Ukraine
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Catholic Church in Ukraine