The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is the largest of all, with 5 million members. The church traces its origin to the 16th century, when the militantly Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Common­wealth ...

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. About 9% of Ukrainians are Greek Catholics, meaning they are Catholics who belong to Churches of the Byzantine Rite.

In an Aug. 3 commentary published on the Greek Catholic Exarchate website, Bishop Manuel Nin, the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church’s apostolic exarch to Greece, expressed several concerns about ...

Rome Newsroom, Apr 15, 2022 / 06:00 am. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has come to global attention following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February.But many Western Catholics ...

Vatican City, Oct 28, 2023 / 06:59 am. A Byzantine Catholic monk who serves as the bishop of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church has, perhaps improbably, emerged as one of the most colorful ...

At the same time, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is Greek – which refers not to Greek ethnicity or language, but to the Greek Orthodox faith inherited from the Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire.

ST. JOHN BYZANTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH was the first Byzantine (or Greek) Catholic parish established in Cleveland. It was founded in 1892 by a group of Byzantine Catholic families with the approval of ...

The weekly Saturday Mass, sponsored by the Byzantine Catholic Association, an outreach group of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, draws a largely Middle Eastern congregation and is celebrated by ...

Their first church was a building they bought for $335 from Holy Cross Church, a nearby Catholic Church. Their first priest, Father Eugene Volkay, was married. This year, the parishioners of St. John ...

POTTSTOWN — Parishioners of St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church recently recognized their parish priest, who is celebrating 53 years in the priesthood and 36 years at the church.