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С.M.S.A.A.
The Missionary Congregation of Saint Andrew the Apostle (С.M.S.A.A. , ) is a congregation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church that is present in Ukraine and Italy and that has its mother church, Mother House in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. The congregation was established as eparchial right in the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk by Fr. Irineusz Michalik on 30 November 1997 with benediction of the Eparchial Bishop emeritus Sofron Dmyterko, Order of Saint Basil the Great, O.S.B.M. History After the collapse of the Soviet Union the religious life became to flourish in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in independent Ukraine. Some old communities have been restored and new ones established. In 1997 among them was founded a new missionary congregation under patronage of St. Andrew the Apostle, who is considered in the History of Christianity in Ukraine#Early history, early Christian history of Ukraine as missionary and preacher on the southern borders of modern-day Ukra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yosafat Moschych
Bishop Yosafat Bohdan Moschych, С.M.S.A.A. (; born 16 September 1976 in Staryi Rozdil, Mykolaiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch as the first eparchial bishop of the new created Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Chernivtsi since 12 September 2017. Before he served as the Titular Bishop of Pulcheriopolis and Auxiliary bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ivano-Frankivsk from 27 May 2014 until 12 September 2017. Life Bishop Moschych, after graduation of the school education, joined the Theological Seminary in Ivano-Frankivsk in 1994, and then – the new founded Missionary Congregation of Saint Andrew the Apostle on April 25, 1998; he had a Profession (religious), profession on August 14, 1999, and a solemn profession on September 15, 2002, and was ordained as priest on September 26, 1999, after graduation of the Theological Seminary. Then he continued his studies in the Pontifical Lateran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |