UCU Represents Ukrainian Greek Catholics at Belgrade Orthodox-Catholic Meeting 10.06.2006, [14:29] Belgrade — In September, the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue revived in Belgrade, Serbia, after a six-year interruption. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was represented by Fr. Iwan Dacko, president of the Institute of Ecumenical Studies of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU). This was the first time that Eastern Catholic churches participated in the dialogue: Romanians, Albanians, Maronites, and Ukrainians. UCU’s site posted the news on 4 October 2006. Read more...
“Radical Orthodoxy” Discussed at Ukrainian Catholic University 06.05.2006, [12:56] Lviv—The Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in western Ukrainian Lviv from 1 to 4 June 2006 hosted a conference “Radical Orthodoxy: A Christian Answer to Postmodern Culture.” Organized by UCU’s Institute of Ecumenical Studies, the conference gathered Anglicans, Orthodox, and Catholics from North America, Western Europe, and Ukraine to discuss how “to restore theology as queen of sciences,” explained the conference’s organizers. Read more...
UCU Leaders Participate in Conference on Orthodox Priest Born in Mykolaiv 05.09.2006, [14:35] An Orthodox priest who served Russian émigrés to France in the 1920s and early 1930s was the subject of a conference, “Alexander Elchaninov, Orthodox Priest and Historian of Religion,” held in southern Ukrainian Mykolaiv on 1-2 May 2006. Mykolaiv was Fr. Elchaninov’s home town. The Ukrainian Catholic University was represented by Dr. Antoine Arjakovsky, director of its Institute of Ecumenical Studies; Fr. Dr. Mykhailo Dymyd, director of the Institute of Canon Law; and Prof. Mykhailo Petrowycz, head of UCU’s Faculty of Theology. Read more...
Social Pedagogy Program to Start at Ukrainian Catholic University 04.14.2006, [11:13] Lviv – Social pedagogy, a new academic discipline, was presented at the Day of Open Doors of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in western Ukrainian Lviv on 8 April 2006. Starting in September 2006, approximately 30 students of the university’s Humanities Faculty will be enrolled in the program. Ukraine has no so similar program to prepare a social pedagogue, as UCU’s Information Department reported. The program will prepare students for social work, for teaching Christian ethics in public schools, and for related professions. Read more...
UCU Vice-Rector Meets Canadian MP 03.29.2006, [11:24] Ottawa — Myroslav Marynovych, vice-rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University and director of its Institute of Religion and Society, on 14 March 2006 met with Canadian Member of Parliament Borys Wrzesnewskyj. Marynovych was part of a group visiting Parliament Hill that included Bishop Vasyl Ivasiuk, Ukrainian Greek Catholic exarch of Odesa, and Fr. Ken Nowakowski, Rector of Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Seminary. Read more...
UCU Celebrates Accreditation of Theology 03.15.2006, [11:35] Lviv – Joined by bishops, religious, and representatives of the government and education, the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) on 9 March 2006 celebrated the licensing of theology as an academic discipline by Ukraine’s Ministry of Education. The ministry announced its decision on 2 March, following long years of hard work by the staff of the university. UCU Rector Fr. Borys Gudziak spoke about the matter at length at a 6 March press conference. Read more...
UCU Hosts Conference on Care of the Sick 02.14.2006, [12:30] Kyiv – On 3 February 2006, the Metropolitan Committee on Pastoral Health Matters (MCPHM) of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) held a conference “The Christian Understanding of Human Suffering in the Light of the Apostolic Letter of Pope John Paul II ‘Salvifici Doloris.’” The aim of the conference, held at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in Lviv, was to draw the attention of the Christian community and society to the need to increase care for the sick and to find a place for the ill among us. Read more...
Federation of European Catholic Universities Holds Session in Ukraine 01.26.2006, [14:49] Lviv – On 12-15 January 2006, the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in western Ukrainian Lviv hosted a regular meeting of the Federation of European Catholic Universities (FUCE, in its better-known French acronym). Ukraine received representatives of Catholic universities in Belgium, France, Germany, Poland and Spain. Read more...
UCU Represents Ukrainian Greek Catholics at Belgrade Orthodox-Catholic Meeting
