St. Basil's Ukrainian Catholic Parish

10/29/2026

10/20/2026

The World has Never been so Ukrainian: Challenges and Оpportunities of the Global Ukrainian Community

Presented by Metropolitan Borys Gudziak
25 Years of the Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture
Keynote Address | International Symposium "Recentring the Humanities: Ukraine and the World".

Wednesday 28 October 2026 | 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. MST
Horowitz Theatre, University of Alberta
Reception to follow.
Lecture will also be broadcast via Zoom.

The World Has Never Been So Ukrainian: Challenges and Opportunities of the Global Ukrainian Community”

Ukraine is boldly and creatively confronting a veritable existential threat that has mobilized heroic military resistance, singular and systemic expression of solidarity, a cultural effervescence, and radical soul searching. Ukraine has become an epicenter and catalyst of global change. The world has watched with unprecedented awareness of Ukraine and attention to its people. Many nations, organizations, and individuals have engaged in and aided the struggle for the defense of God-given human dignity, democracy, and political, social, and religious liberties.

The struggle for survival is not only military but also demographic. Hundreds of thousands have been killed and maimed, millions traumatized and forced to leave their homes and homeland. Increasing emigration and plummeting birthrates have brought the population on territory controlled by the Ukrainian government down to approximately 28 million. Ukrainian migrants have landed and are settling on six continents and in many countries that never hosted Ukrainians. The broader and greater dispersion of Ukrainians and inevitable assimilation, while creating many opportunities, leads to many questions and our search for answers.

Metropolitan Borys Gudziak, Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia

Borys Gudziak is a native of Syracuse, New York, born to Ukrainian immigrant parents. He received degrees from Syracuse University, the Pontifical Urban University, and the Pontifical Oriental Institute. He holds a doctorate in Slavic and Byzantine Cultural and Ecclesiastical History from Harvard University (1992). In 1992, he moved to Ukraine, where he founded the Institute of Church History in Lviv. He subsequently served as vice-rector and rector of the Lviv Theological Academy and, from 2002 to 2013, as rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, the first Catholic university established in the former Soviet Union. In 2013, he became president of the UCU. He has taught and worked in Ukraine for more than twenty years and has published hundreds of scholarly, analytical, and journalistic works. In 2012, Gudziak was ordained a bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and appointed to serve Ukrainian Catholics in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. In 2019, he was enthroned as Metropolitan and Archbishop of Philadelphia for Ukrainian Catholics in the United States.

Archbishop Gudziak is Chairman-elect of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace. He is also a member of the Dicastery for the Oriental Churches and the Dicastery for Communication in Rome. He holds honorary doctorates from Syracuse University (2018), Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary (2021), the University of Notre Dame (2022), the Catholic University of America (2022), Ave Maria School of Law (2023), the University of San Francisco (2023), and Seton Hall University (2023). He heads the Department of External Church Relations of the UGCC. His honors include the French Legion of Honor (2015), the Polish Jan Nowak-Jeziorański Award (2016), the Notre Dame Award (2019), the Catholic Faith Network Award of Excellence (2023), the Cross of Ivan Mazepa (2023), the Ellis Island Medal of Honor (2024), the CNEWA Faith and Culture Award

(2024), and the Order of Merit, First Class, of Ukraine (2025). Gudziak serves on the Board of Trustees of The Catholic University of America and the Board of Directors of the Children of Heroes Charitable Foundation. He is president of the UCU Board of Trustees in Lviv and continues to be an active member of the Ukrainian Scouting Organization Plast, serving on its supervisory board in Ukraine.

https://www.ualberta.ca/en/canadian-institute-of-ukrainian-studies/news-and-events/events/2026/25-bohdan-bociurkiw-memorial-lecture.html?

25 Years of the Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture Keynote Address | International Symposium "Recentring the Humanities: Ukraine and the World".

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 9, 2026

Pope Leo XIV Appoints Most Rev. Michael Kwiatkowski
as New Metropolitan Archbishop of Winnipeg

WINNIPEG — The Ukrainian Catholic Bishops in Canada are pleased to share the announcement made by the Vatican Press Service on Thursday, 9 July 2026, that His Holiness Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of the Most Rev. Lawrence Huculak, O.S.B.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg, upon his reaching the age of 75. Concurrently, His Holiness appointed the Most Rev. Michael Kwiatkowski, heretofore the Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of New Westminster, as the new Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg. The date of his installation will be announced as soon as it is determined.

The nomination of Bishop Michael to serve as the sixth bishop and fourth Metropolitan Archbishop of the Winnipeg See was proposed by the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic Church and subsequently accepted and confirmed by His Holiness Pope Leo XIV.

Bishop Michael Kwiatkowski, who was ordained a priest in 1986 by Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk, C.Ss.R., for the Archeparchy of Winnipeg, has served in various parishes in Manitoba, England, Italy, and Ukraine. He has also served as Secretary and Chancellor within the Archeparchy, as well as Chancellor of the Patriarchal Curia of the UGCC, Judge and Head of the Patriarchal Tribunal, and Head of the Patriarchal Catechetical Commission. Additionally, he served for six years as Vice-Rector and lecturer in canon law at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Ukraine.

Three years ago, the Most Rev. Michael Kwiatkowski was appointed by Pope Francis as the fourth Bishop of the Eparchy of New Westminster on Canada’s West Coast. He was consecrated a bishop at Sts. Volodymyr & Olha Cathedral in Winnipeg by Metropolitan Lawrence Huculak, Metropolitan Borys Gudziak of Philadelphia, and Bishop David Motiuk of Edmonton on 8 November 2023, and was installed at Holy Eucharist Cathedral in New Westminster later that month on 18 November 2023.

Bishop Michael very much enjoyed working with the clergy of the Eparchy of New Westminster and serving the faithful of that eparchy, which officially spans British Columbia, the Yukon, and a portion of the Northwest Territories. He will greatly miss them. However, he is determined to keep them and his successor in his prayers and to continue to assist in any way possible.







ДЛЯ НЕГАЙНОГО ПОШИРЕННЯ:

9 липня 2026 року

Папа Лев XIV призначив Високопреосвященнішого владику Михайла Квятковського новим Архиєпископом і Митрополитом Вінніпезьким

ВІННІПЕҐ — Українські католицькі єпископи Канади з радістю повідомляють про оголошення пресслужби Ватикану у четвер, 9 липня 2026 року, згідно з яким Його Святість Папа Лев XIV прийняв зречення з уряду Високопреосвященнішого владики Лаврентія Гуцуляка, ЧСВВ, Архиєпископа і Митрополита Вінніпезької Української Католицької Архиєпархії, у зв'язку з досягненням ним 75-річного віку. Водночас Святійший Отець призначив Високопреосвященнішого владику Михайла Квятковського, який до цього часу обіймав посаду Єпископа Нью-Вестмінстерської Української Католицької єпархії, новим Архиєпископом і Митрополитом Вінніпезької Української Католицької Архиєпархії. Дата його інтронізації буде оголошена пізніше.

Номінація владики Михайла на служіння шостим єпископом і четвертим Митрополитом-Архиєпископом Вінніпезького престолу була запропонована Синодом Єпископів Української Католицької Церкви, а згодом прийнята і затверджена Його Святістю Папою Левом XIV.

Владика Михайло Квятковський, який у 1986 році був висвячений на священника Митрополитом Максимом Германюком, ЧНІ, для Вінніпезької Архиєпархії, служив у різних парафіях у Манітобі, Англії, Італії та Україні. Він також виконував обов'язки секретаря та канцлера в Архиєпархії, а також канцлера Патріаршої курії УГКЦ, судді та голови Патріаршого трибуналу й голови Патріаршої катехитичної комісії. Окрім того, протягом шести років він служив віцеректором та викладачем канонічного права в Українському католицькому університеті в Україні.

Три роки тому Преосвященніший владика Михайло Квятковський був призначений Папою Франциском четвертим Єпископом Нью-Вестмінстерської єпархії на західному узбережжі Канади. Його єпископська хіротонія відбулася в катедральному соборі святих Володимира і Ольги у Вінніпезі 8 листопада 2023 року за участю Митрополита Лаврентія Гуцуляка, Митрополита Бориса Ґудзяка з Філадельфії та владики Давида Мотюка з Едмонтона, а чин його інтронізації відбувся в катедральному соборі Пресвятої Євхаристії в Нью-Вестмінстері наприкінці того ж місяця, 18 листопада 2023 року.

Владика Михайло мав велику радість співпрацювати з духовенством Нью-Вестмінстерської єпархії та служити вірним цієї єпархії, яка офіційно охоплює Британську Колумбію, Юкон та частину Північно-Західних територій. Йому дуже бракуватиме їх. Проте він твердо налаштований повсякчас згадувати їх та свого наступника у своїх молитвах і надалі всіляко допомагати.