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Ukrainian Bishop, American Church - Constantine Bohachevsky and the Ukrainian Catholic Church (Paperback)
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Constantine Bohachevsky was not a typical bishop. On the eve of his
unexpected nomination as bishop to the Ukrainian Catholics in
America, in March 1924, the Vatican secretly whisked him from
Warsaw to Rome to be ordained. He arrived in America that August to
a bankrupt church and a hostile clergy. He stood his ground, and
chose to live simple missionary life. He eschewed public pomp, as
did his immigrant congregations. He regularly visited his scattered
churches. He fought a bitter fight for the independence of the
church from outside interference - a kind of struggle between the
Church and the state, absent both. He refashioned a failing
immigrant church in America into a self-sustaining institution that
half a century after his death could help resurrect the underground
Catholic Church in Ukraine, which became the largest Eastern
Catholic church today. This trailblazing biography, based on
recently opened sources from the Vatican, Ukraine and the United
States, brings the reader from the placid life of the married
Catholic Ukrainian clergy in the Habsburg Empire to industrial
America. The Ukrainian Catholic Church, formalized in 1595, melds
Eastern religious practices with Western hierarchic structure, thus
healing the 1054 Christian divide. While there is doctrinal unity,
Eastern Catholic practice differs so markedly from that of the
Latin Rite that Ukrainian immigrants in the US created their own
churches. The death of the first bishop in 1916 and the long hiatus
in naming a replacement led to widespread unrest. Yet, under
Bohachevsky's forceful leadership, within a decade, the church
developed a network of parishes, schools, colleges, and eventually
a seminary, cultivating its clergy and its understanding of Eastern
Catholicism. In 1958, the Pope erected the Ukrainian Catholic
Archbishopric of Philadelphia and appointed Bohachevsky its
Metropolitan/Archbishop.
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