The 40-year old bishop newly elected to lead the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has ambitious plans to resist growing secularism in his country, drawing on help from Rome and a "strategic alliance" with the Orthodox Churches. Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk visited Pope Benedict XVI on April 1 in his first official act since being elected March 23 to leadership of the world’s 4.3 million Ukrainan Greek Catholics by a synod of bishops. Archbishop Sviatoslav and brother bishops from the synod made the trip to Rome during the week of his enthronement to confirm their communion with the Successor of Peter, he said during a Vatican press conference. They wish to manifest the "nature and essence, the being of our Church," he said. Read the story here.
Catholic News Agency: Ukrainian Catholic leader to combat secularism with alliances
Newly elected Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk to lead the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has ambitious plans to resist growing secularism in his country.
