Annual end-of-summer gathering in Fairfield, ND on Aug. 20, to embrace Ukrainian immigrants amid Russian conflict in feast aimed at uniting first and fourth generation Ukrainians. FAIRFIELD, ND — The Ukrainian Christian…
Though small in number within the United States, traditional Ukrainian Catholic churches still exist. One small parish has churches in Belfield and Fairfield, North Dakota. Their Easter celebrations are a visual wonder…
On Thursday, February 23 at 5:00 pm, you are all invited to attend an event with His Reverence Metropolitan Borys Gudziak, as well as a panel of Eastern Christian scholars and experts on the 1 year anniversary of the…
Dear Catechists: …Jesus was transfigured before them (Mt 17: 1) Glory be to Jesus Christ! I greet all of you as we begin a New Catechetical Year! I express my gratitude to you on behalf of all the bishops and pastors of…
Thanks to your donations, we are able and continue to help our brothers and sisters in Ukraine. $10,000 of the total donations was transferred to the Donetsk Exarchate of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, which was…
On Monday July 18, Msgr. Peter Vaccari and a delegation from the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, CNEWA, visited St. Nicholas Cathedral. After a short tour of our Cathedral, we prayed the Moleben for Peace…
A notable event took place at St. Nicholas Cathedral on May 22, 2022. His Grace Bishop Benedict conferred the minor order of Reader-Cantor upon four students of the Mission Institute. Two additional students were…
The Eparchy of St. Nicholas parishes of western North Dakota recently participated in two separate events celebrating the Divine Liturgy, explaining our apostolic tradition, and teaching about the apostles and fathers…
Christ is Risen! I am writing to you in this hard time for Ukraine to ask you for the support of our Annual Eparchial Appeal "Share" for the year 2022. I realize that with the war in Ukraine our focus on support has…
We are extremely grateful for your ongoing support of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. This time, your support of $2,000 was directed toward the much needed spiritual care of the Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines.…
A BIG thank you to all our wonderful donors - individuals, organizations, and foundations who have been supporting Ukraine in this very difficult time. To-date, we have raised more than $180,000 in aid for the urgent…
Dozens of benefactors and alumni of Lviv Seminary of the Holy Spirit visited the 5th anniversary charity banquet "Christmas Prosphora", which took place on January 9 at the seminary. During the event more than 800,000…
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ! Please accept my heartfelt and sincere greetings with the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, which is one of the greatest and most solemn Christian holidays. We celebrate the event…
The Belfield, North Dakota, local community showed great support for St. John the Baptist Parish’s annual Christmas Cookie Walk. Parishioners of St. John the Baptist baked, folded, and made, and nearly sold out around…
Written By: Jason O'Day St. Demetrius Ukrainian Catholic Church was a pillar of the community for Ukrainians who bravely settled the land north of Belfield 120 years ago. We spoke with Father Martin Naggy to learn more…
A three-day retreat for the clergy of the St. Nicholas Eparchy was held at the retreat house of St. Joseph and Mary, near Chicago.The hieromonk Fr. Illia Mamchak preached about the spiritual life. Every night there were…
On this Thanksgiving Day, we will traditionally gather with family and friends to celebrate this holiday and share our Lord’s gifts. Let’s take a moment, look back at the passing year, and see the endless graces and…
On November 7, Fr. Vasyl Mizyuk (administrator of the parish of St. Andrew) together with the parishioners celebrated the 60th Anniversary of St. Nicholas Eparchy.
The month of November for Ukrainians, Ukrainians in the heart and people of good will is a time of honoring the victims of the Holodomor, the terrible and planned by the Stalinist-Soviet regime famine of Ukrainians in…
On September 9-12, 2021, with the blessing of the Most Reverend Bishop Benedict (Aleksiychuk), the Mission Institute of the St. Nicholas Eparchy held its annual meeting of the School of Evangelization.
On September 12, 2021, in commemoration of the Parochial Feast Day, the Most Rev. Bishop Benedict (Aleksiychuk) celebrated the Hierarchical Liturgy at BVM Ukrainian Catholic Church located in Palos Park, not far from…
On September 12, 2021, the Divine Liturgy was served at St. Andrew Ukrainian Catholic Church in Sacramento, CA, by the newly assigned priest, Rev. Vasyl Miziuk.
On September 8, 2021, the Feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, an informal and warm St. Nicholas Cathedral Pastoral Council meeting was held with the Most Reverend Bishop Benedict (Aleksiychuk). In the past…
The parish community group “Mothers in Prayer” of the St. Nicholas Cathedral Parish celebrated the 12th Anniversary of their service at the Cathedral on September 5, 2021. The celebration commenced with the Hierarchical…
St. Nicholas Eparchy has been enriched by the addition of a new priest who recently arrived from Ukraine to serve the eparchy. The Most Rev. Bishop Benedict (Aleksiychuk) met with Rev. Vasyl Miziuk and his family upon…
And once of the sudden Father Taras Mylyan's term of serving in the parishes of Omaha, Nebraska, and Lincoln and St. Joseph came to an end. With a happy heart, but with sadness in his soul, he returns home to continue…
The official opening and consecration of the Dormition of the Mother of God Monastery for Monastic Sisters, located in Richmond, IL, was celebrated on the holy day of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary on August…
On Sunday, the 11th of July, the feast of St. Olha, Princess of Kyiv, the newly established parish of Sts. Peter and Paul celebrated its first Resurrectional Divine Liturgy. Sts. Peter and Paul was established by…
On July 12,2021 Bishop Benedict (Aleksiychuk) greeted the monastic sisters arriving in Chicago from Ukraine. The Sisters, five in all, will be living in Richmond, IL (not far from Chicago) in a monastic location…
Our eparchy has a new priest and a new parish. Father Daniel Kirk, a convert to the Orthodox Church, was ordained a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 2015. He was appointed as pastor of the mission church of St.…
Recently in our St. Nicholas Eparchy was the incardination of two priests. Incardination is a kind of mechanism through which the priest becomes a member of the local Church. From the Ternopil-Zboriv Archdiocese to our…
On June 6, Bishop Bohdan Danylo, Eparch of Parma, visited St. Nicholas Cathedral in Chicago. Fr. Roman Bobesiuk met him together with children and graduates of the St. Nicholas Cathedral School. The Liturgy was…
Nativity of the Mother of God Church in Springfield, Oregon, has scheduled the Akathist to St. Joseph for Wednesday evenings in May and June. Following the service is an "all family" religious education program based on…
Mother's Day was celebrated in an unusual way in the parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Omaha, Nebraska. The day began with the Sunday Liturgy, during which they prayed for their mothers and then the…
"And I praise You always, dear God" T.G. Shevchenko No good event in life or in society occurs without God's inspiration and blessing. So it was with the founding of the Ridna Shkola Dallas, located in The Colony, in…
In the Church Liturgical Year, the month of May is devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Prayers of thanksgiving, praise and requests for the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary are heard in all churches.
This is a photo of our Dads’ Bible Study when we went fishing. The goal of our Bible Study is to grow in our faith and share the trials and joys of fatherhood. An easy way to get the Dads together for the first time was
On April 24, 2021, the children along with their parents began the pilgrimage with a Divine Liturgy at St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Church in Munster, Indiana.
On April 22, 2021, in the St. Nicholas Cathedral Eparchial Office, members of the Pastoral and Economic Finance Councils affirmed at an Oath of Office Ceremony that they willingly assume the duties of the office to the…
St. Nicholas Eparchy of Chicago, with the blessing of Bishop Benedict (Aleksiychuk), held its annual three-day Chrism conference, from Monday, Apr. 19th through Wednesday, Apr. 21st. The conference took place via Zoom,…
A new tradition was established at the Assumption Ukrainian Catholic Church in Omaha, NE on the Thomas Sunday, April 11th, 2021. Parishioners together with the Priest, Taras Mylyan took a pilgrimage tour to the local…
The Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv is the main shrine of the UGCC, which rises on the left bank of the Dnipro River. Its importance and relevance for the Church and the entire Ukrainian…
Calendar renewal is a good opportunity to study it more deeply and to comprehend the church holidays, stated in the Pastoral Epistles of His Beatitude Sviatoslav, to the faithful of the UGCC on the renewal of the church…
Annual end-of-summer gathering in Fairfield, ND on Aug. 20, to embrace Ukrainian immigrants amid Russian conflict in feast aimed at uniting first and fourth generation Ukrainians. FAIRFIELD, ND — The Ukrainian Christian community extends an invitation to the…
On May 21, in our St. Nicholas Eparchy, an extraordinary event took place - the First Graduation from the Mission Institute. His Eminence Bishop Benedict (Aleksiychuk), before the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy, at the St. Nicholas Cathedral, conferred Minor…