Annales Ecclesiae Ucrainae

Annales Ecclesiae Ucrainae is a collection of articles by Rev Dr Athanasius McVay, pertaining to the history of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. It is inspired by great works of ecclesiastical history, such as Baronius' Annales Ecclesiastici, Harasevych's Annales Ecclesiae Ruthenae and Athanasius Welykyj's Analecta OSBM.

Monday, 1 November 2021

Maxim Hermaniuk and the Formation of the Ukrainian Catholic Metropolia of Canada

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65 years ago, on 3 November 1956, Pope Pius XII created an ecclesiastical province (metropolia) for Ukrainian Catholics in Canada, elevating...

Tuesday, 24 August 2021

Eyewitness to Ukrainian Independence

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Chrystyna Lapychak/The Ukrainian Weekly Historians are not the witnesses or the sources of history. They makes historical judgments upon the...

Monday, 19 July 2021

The Union of Brest at 425

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The UNION of Brest (1595–1596) aimed to heal the lack of canonical unity between the Churches. In the spirit of the 1439 Florentine Union, t...

Monday, 12 July 2021

Danylo Skoropadsky on His Father’s Death

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I first learned of Danylo Skoropadsky on a visit to the old Basilian Fathers Museum in Mundare, Alberta; a building which had been erect...

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Rev. Dr Athanasius D. McVay HED FRSA FRHistS: Edmonton - Rome - London, United Kingdom; Priest and Church historian specializing in the history of the Holy See's diplomacy and of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in the XIX and XX centuries. Fellow of: the Shevchenko Scientific Society of Canada; the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto; The Royal Society of Arts; The Royal Historical Society.

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